The demand for fresh water is expected to surpass supply by 40 percent within the next two decades – placing urgent pressure on businesses to rethink the way water resources are managed, for their own good and for the good of their customers and communities. To address these challenges, businesses around the world are setting ambitious water conservation goals; Ecolab helps them achieve those goals.
Ecolab helps customers do more, using less water – improving the heating and cooling, industrial processing, wastewater treatment, and cleaning and sanitizing processes.
Ecolab employs innovative water technologies, real-time data and monitoring, water management software tools, water treatment services and chemistries to help customers implement industrial water conservation efforts to reduce fresh water use, re-use and recycle water to increase operational efficiency and reduce cost of operation, pretreat water to meet environmental discharge standards, treat water for public health and safety, and to protect and prolong asset life.
Learn how Ecolab partners with customers in clean water management to conserve fresh water, increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Explore our water technologies and innovations that can help you reach your clean water goals.
Ecolab is a leader in clean water management with tools, resources, and experts to help you conserve water and optimize water quality.
The Water Risk Monetizer provides actionable information to help businesses understand water-related risks and quantify risks in financial terms.
Our water experts help develop solutions for safety and success across all of our businesses, reaching customers worldwide.
Our solutions helps customers achieve ambitious business and environmental goals. Lasting change is accelerated when economic and environmental benefits align.
Water is not sterile. It can harbor bacteria such as Legionella, which can cause severe illness and even death. Recent outbreaks have taught us that Legionella is not specific to any geographic area and that no industry is immune from outbreaks.
Nalco Water has created a comprehensive program with a range of educational resources including eLearning and hands-on operator training in a new, high-tech learning environment at our Naperville campus.
Service and innovation to help you save water
As you work toward decreasing overall water usage while promoting guest satisfaction, every aspect of the operation is being optimized. Our dedication to service means we will always help you use our products to achieve your sustainability goals and keep guests coming back.
Watch videos that demonstrate Ecolab’s commitment to clean water access.
Watch as John Holden of the nationally syndicated Discovery Channel series "Earth" visits Naperville, Illinois to investigate how Nalco Water is helping companies save water for our planet.
For most students, school supplies include a backpack, some pencils and a few notebooks. At a school in Cebu, Philippines, each student has to bring a gallon of water to school – every day. Jimmy Espos, an engineer for Nalco Water, didn't think access to water should be something students had to worry about - so he came up with a solution.
Ecolab’s commitment to clean water conservation includes setting ambitious goals.
We are committed to reducing water use in our own operations. We’ve saved millions of gallons of water across our facilities by implementing an innovative program designed to conserve water, energy and wastewater while prolonging equipment life.
Learn how Ecolab offers innovative water management solutions to help customers conserve water to increase operational efficiency, reduce operational costs, lower environmental impact, and protect public health and safety, and prolong equipment life.