Demonstrating leadership through performance, in association with The Water Council
Chicago – June 16, 2025 – Culligan International, a global leader in consumer water services, announced today it has achieved verification to The Water Council’s WAVE: Assess program. This verification certifies that Culligan has assessed and is addressing water challenges across its organizational value chain from product design through distribution, operations and services. Culligan joined The Water Council in 2023.
The Water Council, an international nonprofit dedicated to freshwater innovation and advancing water stewardship, developed the WAVE programs in order to help define what constitutes “good” enterprise-wide water stewardship. WAVE: Assess provides a five-step process to guide organizations through assessing water use, impact and risk across their enterprise. As a result, participants develop an organizational water profile, priority list of sites exposed to water risks and list of necessary actions to address risks, challenges and opportunities. Organizations also develop a water policy or commitment statement and disclose the outcomes of finishing the WAVE: Assess program.
Culligan’s WAVE: Assess water metrics and water stewardship efforts were verified in 2025 by SCS Global Services, an international independent, third-party verifier and certifier of environmental and sustainability claims.
“The WAVE verification program prioritizes and illustrates our commitment to good water stewardship,” said Scott Clawson, Culligan CEO and chairman and a board member of The Water Council. “As a global leader in water services, Culligan understands how meaningful industry actions preserve resources, protect the planet, and promote the long-term viability of businesses and communities.”
As part of the WAVE verification process, Culligan assessed water-related risk at 23 of its sites, accounting for more than 80% of the company’s global water consumption. At each site, Culligan identified each facility’s watershed alongside the impact of its inputs and outputs. This informed specific action plans Culligan created to reduce water consumption, inclusive of:
Additionally, Culligan engages the communities around its facilities to provide clean, safe drinking water through its global donation program. The company donated nearly 9 million liters of water in 2024 and intends to donate more than 10 million liters in 2025.