Communities, Businesses, and NGOs Unite to Tackle Water Challenges for World Water Day 2025
Volunteers Invited to Join a Global Wave of Action to Expand Clean Water Access
“Around the world, volunteers are driving meaningful progress toward providing clean water and sanitation for communities everywhere,” said Austin Alexander, Vice President of Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem, a leading global water technology company. “The Wave of Action is an opportunity to scale our impact on urgent water challenges and help communities become water-secure. We’ve seen what’s possible when people come together to take real action.”
For World Water Day 2025, Xylem and its partners welcome participants to get involved in making communities around the world more water-secure. Whether leading a cleanup, joining an educational event, or supporting WASH initiatives, volunteers will help build a more water-secure world.
A Wave of Action webinar on Thursday, Feb. 20, will feature global partners such as Mercy Corps, Engineers Without Borders
Anyone can get involved by leading or joining a local volunteer effort. Free playbooks offer step-by-step guidance to help participants organize activities and track their impact. Visit Global Watermark Wave of Action to download playbooks, log your participation, and help activate a donation from Xylem to our nonprofit partners.
Since 2019, Xylem’s corporate social responsibility program, Watermark, has delivered WASH solutions to more than 16 million people, provided water education to over 12 million people, and responded to 154 water-related disasters.
Last year, alone, volunteers organized by Xylem:
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Provided emergency clean water to 54,000 people in
Brazil displaced by catastrophic floods, thanks to collaborations with Planet Water Foundation. -
Assembled 2,000 water filters, supplying 20,000 people in crisis zones, including
Ukraine , with safe drinking water. -
Funded WASH education programs for children affected by the
Morocco earthquake. -
Mobilized more than 3,000 participants to support schools facing water contamination; and raised
for water infrastructure projects.$200,000
In all, Xylem employees and partners dedicated more than 220,000 volunteer hours in 2024 through 1,380 nonprofit partnerships in 55 countries.
About Xylem
Xylem (XYL) is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company that empowers customers and communities to build a more water-secure world. Our 23,000 diverse employees delivered revenue of
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Source: Xylem Inc.