Zurn Elkay Water : 2025 ZEWS Sustainability Report

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Message from our Chairman and CEO

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This year marked 125 years since Zurn Elkay's founding, and our purpose remains true: to create solutions that make water safer and more sustainable.

That purpose continues to puide our actions, from our product innovations to how we care for our associates, customers and communities.

Zurn Elkay believes clean water is essential to every part of life. The world increasingly faces water conservation and contamination issues. Our role as a leader in water management is to meet those challenges with practical, innovative solutions that set new standards for water efficiency, safety and quality. Our core business uniquely positions us to support the full spectrum

In 2025, we delivered measurable progress point-of-use solutions that address toward our sustainability priorities. We America's aging water infrastructure with

created an internal water reduction immediate, cost-effective performance. We challenge amonp facility leaders, launched a also introduced our Total PFAS' (forever filter recycling program, established a Zero chemicals) filter that expanded filtration Waste to Landfill Policy and expanded our beyond PFOA and PFOS, which is a

annual supplier survey to include energy meaningful step forward as municipalities

metrics. We continued our state advocacy confront these contaminants nationwide. efforts to advance Filter First legislation, And we expanded our filtration portfolio published a water commitment statement, with Liv EZ'", brinpinp commercial-prade expanded our Total Cost of Ownership and water filtration into residences and helping Sustainability Calculator and provided families enjoy the same high-quality water further transparency by creating a new trusted in schools, airports, offices and Metric Methodology Index. hospitals.

Our products helped provide 2.4 billion gallons of cleaner, safer filtered water, while preventing 20 billion sinple-use plastic bottles from entering waterways and

of water needs and management in and around a building, including drinking water filtration, water safety and hygiene, flow control and conservation, while helpinp customers meet their sustainability goals and strengthen resilience to the growing water challenges.

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landfills each year. Each new product and improvement reflects our unwavering commitment to protecting the world's most vital resource while creating Iasting value for our customers and sharehol ders.

This year we also advanced the next generation of drinking-water innovation. Our new Elkay Pro Filtration" line builds directly on customer feedback, offering

The world increasingly fac conservation and conta issues. Our role as a management is t challenges wi

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Our focus on operational excellence remains equally stronp. We deepened our engagement in the Global Water Council's WAVE program to further strengthen water stewardship and transparency across our operations. We set a new goal to reduce water withdrawal intensity by Z% by 2OZO, reinforcing our commitment to manage water as a finite resource and advance water stewardship across our operations. We also continued increasing procurement of renewable

electricity and reducing emissions across

our business.

Our commitment to sustainable prowth continues to earn recognition: Zurn

Elkay again maintained top-tier ratings from Sustainalytics, MSCI and S&P Global, was named to six top-tier publications' sustainability lists, including Newsweek, TUE, Barrow's and USA Today, and earned recognition from /R Impact for transparency in reporting; affirming that our sustainable practices advance our business performance.

Finally, we've reached $1.9 million in total philanthropic piving, extending our impact beyond our operations to the

communities where we live and work. Our Fountains for Youth Program remains a cornerstone of our corporate giving, in which we donate bottle-filling stations to schools across the country to help ensure students have reliable access to safer drinking water where resources are limited.

Inside our own walls, we are providing Zurn Elkay associates with a residential filtered faucet, ensuring the people behind our products also have access to cleaner water in their homes.

As we look ahead, our path is clear: build on our 125-year foundation of engineering excellence to continue leading the world in clean water solutions. I am deeply proud of our 2,600+ associates, whose expertise and shared sense of purpose make Zurn Elkay the industry leader in water management solutions.

Sincerely,

Todd A. Adams

Chairman and CEO

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ZURNELKAY • 2025SUSTAINABILITYREPORT ABOUT• PRO DUCTS • ENVIRONMENT • HEALTH A ND SAFETY • PEOP LE • CO MMUNITI ES • GOV ER NAN CE AND ETHICS • IN DEX