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Xylem Inc.
Xylem Inc. (NYSE: XYL; HQ Washington DC area; ~$8B+ revenue post-Evoqua) is the largest US-headquartered water technology company following the $7.5B acquisition of Evoqua Water Technologies in 2023. Xylem provides industrial water pumping systems, filtration, dewatering, and treatment for mining — critical for slurry transport, mine dewatering, and process water recycling. Evoqua brought large-scale industrial water treatment systems including advanced oxidation, UV disinfection, ion exchange, and membrane filtration used in hard-rock mining operations. Xylem also manufactures submersible pumps for mine dewatering — removing groundwater that floods underground mine workings. The pumping and treatment technologies Xylem supplies to mining operations are identical to those used in US military field water purification units and naval ship freshwater generation systems (dual-use).
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Water Infrastructure
42%Applied Water
28%Measurement & Control (Sensus)
18%Water Treatment (Evoqua)
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Did you know2024
Xylem's Sensus division operates smart water meters in the majority of US municipal water utilities — it holds an estimated 40%+ share of US advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) for water. These Sensus FlexNet radio mesh networks transmit water consumption data from millions of homes to municipal water utilities every 15 minutes. This creates an interesting dual-use profile: the same Xylem that supplies submersible pumps to a Kansas copper mine and agricultural pumps to a Florida citrus operation also operates what is effectively a real-time consumption monitoring network covering a significant fraction of US residential water infrastructure. Sensus's FlexNet data platform — operated to bill residential water customers — represents a critical infrastructure data network that has attracted cybersecurity concern from DHS, as an attack on water AMI systems could simultaneously disrupt billing, consumption monitoring, and leak detection across hundreds of US municipalities.
Sensus (Xylem Inc.) ↗Origin2023
Xylem Inc. was spun off from ITT Corporation in October 2011 — the same ITT that made radar, sonar, night vision goggles, and military electronics used in US defense systems. ITT decided to separate its water business (pumps, treatment) from its defense electronics business to allow each to pursue specialized strategies. The water business became Xylem (named for the plant tissue that carries water). The defense electronics business retained the ITT name and later merged with Exelis (then absorbed by Harris Corporation into L3Harris). Xylem's corporate lineage is thus directly from a defense industrial company — the water technology company and the night vision goggle company were once the same organization.
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