As environmental stewards, we engage in and promote business practices that respect our values. We are committed to minimizing the impact of our global operations and supply chain on the environment, protecting the communities where we operate, and innovating products and services that support our customers in doing the same.
Reducing our Water, Energy, Carbon, and Waste Footprints since 2014
Watts WAVE Certification
Watts has successfully completed verification for The Water Council’s WAVE: Water Stewardship Verified program, indicating the company has assessed water-related risk across the enterprise, identified the highest water-related impacts using credible water-related data and implemented best practice in improving water stewardship performance. As a result of the review, Watts took a variety of actions at the local and global level to reduce water consumption, increase reuse, improve water quality, and reduce negative impacts upstream and downstream.
Water Stewardship
Access to clean, safe, and affordable water is a fundamental human right. Water and climate are inexorably linked, and an imminent global water crisis threatens the availability, quantity, and quality of water for basic human needs. We formalized our commitment to being part of the solution in our Corporate Environment, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Policy.
Alignment
with global water stewardship standards and
best practices, particularly
among high-use facilities &
facilities in water-stressed
regions.
Respect
Acknowledgement
of water as a shared resource
of our operations: water withdrawn,
water consumed, and
quality of discharges
affecting local ecosystems.
Transparency
Improvement
advance stewardship in
operations, watershed
management, community
engagement, and
transparency.
Engaging all Colleagues in Water Stewardship
Deepening Our Commitment to Protect the Merrimack River
In partnership with the Clean River Project, colleagues from Andover and North Andover, MA, USA, pulled 1.13 tons of trash from a local waterway in 2025. The nonprofit organization works to clean and preserve a 45-mile stretch of the Merrimack River, a vast waterway that flows through 15 cities in northeast Massachusetts. The river serves as the water supply for more than 600,000 area residents, is a popular destination for outdoor enthusiasts, and is the main regional outlet of fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean. Watts volunteers used hand grabbers, shovels, and rakes to remove items such as discarded tires, construction debris, and plastic refuse. Larger items like bicycles and suitcases were also retrieved. In 2025, the Watts Water/Clean River Project boat made close to a dozen trips, recovering more than 10 MT of trash and debris.
Reclaiming Condensate: Reducing Water Use at Our Fort Worth Facility
Our Fort Worth, TX, USA, facility is where our hot water systems are manufactured. In 2025, an opportunity was identified to capture and reclaim condensate water that’s generated from rooftop AC units during the humid summer months. Instead of letting this condensate get discharged as it had been, the site began implementing a project to capture and pipe it to the passivation area where the water is reused. This adjustment is projected to reduce the site’s annual consumption by ~9%.
Driving Water Efficiency and Community Impact in Franklin
Franklin, NH, USA, is home to our largest manufacturing facility worldwide, in both revenue and resource utilization, producing our flagship products such as backflow preventers, temperature and pressure (T&P) valves, and IntelliStation. The site reduced ~2 million liters of water in 2025 as compared to 2024, equivalent to a 9% reduction, through monitoring, enhanced operational efficiencies, and interventions. Colleagues also participated in their first cleanup event as part of an expanded partnership with the Clean River Project, making 2025 the first time Watts participated in cleaning the Merrimack River in two different states.