Chemicals: Climate & GHG disclosures

Sustainability is core to our business strategy. We deliver sustainable solutions that help companies around the world achieve their business goals while reducing environmental impacts. We partner with customers around the world to reduce water and energy use as well as greenhouse gas emissions through our high-efficiency solutions. By partnering with our customers to help them do more with less through the use of our innovative and differentiated solutions, we aim to help our customers conserve more than 300 billion gallons of water annually by 2030. In 2024, we helped our customers conserve more than 226 billion gallons of water and avoid more than 4.6 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

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The following description of our business is based upon our reportable segments as reported in our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2025, which are located in Item 8 of Part II of this Form 10-K. Operating segments that share similar economic characteristics and future prospects, including the nature of the products and production processes, end-use markets, channels of distribution and regulatory environment, have been aggregated into four reportable segments: Global Water, Global Institutional & Specialty, Global Pest Elimination, and Global Life Sciences.

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Global Water

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This reportable segment consists of the Light & Heavy, Food & Beverage and Paper operating segments, which provide water treatment and process applications and cleaning and sanitizing solutions, primarily to large industrial customers within the manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, primary metals and mining, power generation, global refining, petrochemical, pulp and paper industries. The underlying operating segments exhibit similar manufacturing processes, distribution methods and economic characteristics. Descriptions of the three operating segments which comprise our Global Water reportable segment follow below.

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Light & Heavy

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Light & Heavy serves customers across industrial and institutional markets. Within Light & Heavy, our markets include food and beverage, manufacturing and transportation, institutional clients, including commercial buildings, hospitals, universities and hotels, and global high technology serving customers, including data centers and microelectronics. We also serve the power, chemicals, primary metals and mining and petroleum refining and fuels industries.

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