Milwaukee Public Schools and Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Announce Multi-Year Partnership and $2.2 Million Donation as Kids Return to School
August 28 2023 - 7:13PM
Business Wire
- Zurn Elkay donates $2.2 million of Elkay drinking water filters
to support MPS and the City of Milwaukee’s ongoing commitment to
providing safer, cleaner drinking water.
- MPS is installing 700 new Elkay filtered bottle filling
stations and has converted 2,500 existing filtered drinking
fountains to the Elkay filtration system, using donated water
filter connectors and filters.
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions (NYSE: ZWS) today announced a
partnership with Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) and a $2.2 million
donation of its Elkay drinking water filters to support the City of
Milwaukee’s and MPS’s ongoing commitment to providing safer,
cleaner drinking water to students, staff and community
members.
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As kids return to school, Zurn Elkay
Chairman and CEO Todd Adams joined Starms Early Childhood
kindergarteners to announce the company's new five-year partnership
with Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS). The agreement includes a $2.2
million donation of Elkay drinking water filters to support the
City of Milwaukee’s and MPS’s ongoing commitment to providing
safer, cleaner drinking water to students, staff and community
members. (Photo: Business Wire)
In an event with kindergarten students at Starms Early Childhood
Center, 2616 W. Garfield St., Mayor Cavalier Johnson, MPS
Superintendent Dr. Keith P. Posley and Zurn Elkay Water Solutions
Chairman and CEO Todd A. Adams celebrated the signing of a
five-year support agreement between MPS and Zurn Elkay.
As part of the agreement to convert all existing MPS drinking
fountains and bottle filling stations to Elkay filtration, Zurn
Elkay will donate to MPS up to 3,250 filters annually through the
2027-28 school year to ensure that MPS’s drinking fountains and
bottle filling stations stay filtered, giving students, staff and
community members access to safer, cleaner water at school.
“The health and safety of our students is a top priority for
Milwaukee Public Schools. The district began filtering water in our
schools seven years ago,” Dr. Posley said. “Zurn Elkay’s generous
gift to MPS will help ensure that students and staff all across the
district continue to have the safest possible drinking water.”
Headquartered in the heart of Milwaukee’s Clean Water Technology
Hub, Zurn Elkay aspires to provide the safest and most efficient
water solutions to protect human health and the environment. Its
Elkay drinking fountains and bottle filling stations are
manufactured in Illinois, and its filters are tested and certified
to NSF/ANSI 42 and 53 to reduce lead and other harmful
contaminants. Since 2012, use of Elkay bottle filling stations has
avoided the use of more than 76 billion single-use plastic
bottles.
“For kids in Milwaukee and all across the country, school
buildings are more than a place for education and social
development: they’re a primary source of drinking water, and Zurn
Elkay is here to help schools provide the cleanest, safest drinking
water we can,” Adams said. “As a proud, Milwaukee-based company,
we’re grateful that MPS has trusted Zurn Elkay with the opportunity
to help ensure every MPS student, teacher and staff member has
access to safer, cleaner drinking water.”
In 2016, MPS voluntarily began testing drinking water in all of
its facilities. Following the test results, MPS announced that all
schools in the district would be provided with filtration for their
water fountains. Today’s announcement reflects an expansion of this
commitment, with MPS using federal ESSER funding to purchase an
additional 700 Elkay bottle filling stations, increasing its total
count of Elkay filtered drinking fountains and bottle filling
stations to more than 3,200.
For photos and video from today’s announcement,
please visit zurnelkay.com/press-room/press-kits.
About Milwaukee Public Schools
Milwaukee Public Schools is committed to accelerating student
achievement, building positive relationships between youth and
adults and cultivating leadership at all levels. The district's
commitment to improvement continues to show results:
- 94 percent of proposed 2023-24 budget dollars go directly to
classrooms;
- MPS offers one of the most extensive Montessori programs in the
country, including the only public K3 to grade 12 Montessori school
in the nation; and
- More than 70 MPS high school students have earned the Seal of
Biliteracy, sanctioned by the State of Wisconsin, for proficiency
in multiple languages.
Learn more about MPS by visiting mps.milwaukee.k12.wi.us. More
news is available at mpsmke.com/news.
About Zurn Elkay Water Solutions
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions designs, procures, manufactures and
markets the industry’s widest range of clean water solutions for
drinking water, hygiene and sustainable water management to improve
health, human safety and the environment. Headquartered in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Zurn Elkay works with customers around the
globe to deliver products and systems that enhance and ensure water
quality, safety, hygiene, flow control and conservation. In
everything we do, we are sustainably inspired. Learn more at
www.zurnelkay.com.
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Stephen Davis, MPS Media Relations Manager
davis2@milwaukee.k12.wi.us / 414-688-9664
Angela Hersil, Vice President - Corporate Communications
corporate.communications@zurn.com / 414-808-0199
Jeff Fleming, Mayor’s Communications Director
jeff.fleming2@milwaukee.gov / 414-559-2497
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