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30 Jan 2024

U.S. Private Water: Key Trends, M&A Activity, and Market Outlook, Q1 2024 
Economic uncertainty reflected in an 8% decline in M&A. Investor-owned utilities, municipalities, and a handful of other buyers tallied 140 approved acquisitions during 2023. This marks a two-year decline in annual deal flow following a record number of acquisitions in 2021.

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Global Smart Water Update: Market Trends, Competitive Shifts, & Project Activity 

Smart water project announcements in the second half of 2016 were driven by utility responses to water scarcity and non-revenue water, regulatory compliance, and vendor...
1 Feb. 2017
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U.S. Smart Water: Defining the Opportunity, Competitive Landscape, and Market Outlook 

Smart water solutions – hardware, software, and analytics – are taking hold in the U.S. municipal water sector, driving close to US$20 billion of capital...
30 Apr. 2017
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U.S. Municipal Pipe Markets: Trends, Opportunities, and a Changing Competitive Landscape in Water 

The new installation and rehabilitation of underground municipal infrastructure in the U.S. represents 51%, or US$272 billion, of forecasted capital expenditures over the next ten...
4 May. 2017
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The Cost of Water: Comparing Alternative and Legacy Water Supplies in the U.S. 

The cost of traditional water supplies — water rights, new transmission, and reservoirs — are on the rise. In response to water shortages, municipalities and...
6 Apr. 2017
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U.S. Municipal Wastewater Reuse: Project Pipeline and Segmentation Analysis, 2017-2030 

For the first time, Hawaii, Georgia, Wyoming, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee have water reuse projects included in Bluefield’s database of 763 projects.
10 Apr. 2017
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State Revolving Fund Budget Allocations, 2016-2017 (Midwest) 

More than US$12.2 billion has been requested from the State Revolving Funds in the Midwest -- a key source of funding to improve drinking water and...
19 Apr. 2017
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State Revolving Fund Budget Allocations, 2016-2017 (West) 

Colorado has the highest drinking water project need, while California has the highest clean water project need. Bluefield analyzes funding for each state in the...
24 Apr. 2017
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State Revolving Fund Budget Allocations (Northeast) 

State Revolving Fund project needs in the Northeast region total more than US$34.6 billion with New York and New Jersey at the top of the...
28 Apr. 2017
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State Revolving Fund Budget Allocations (South) 

With declining federal funding for water projects, State Revolving Funds (SRF) provide low interest loans to public and private entities to improve drinking water and...
28 Apr. 2017
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Water for Fracking: Produced Water Treatment & Disposal Trends in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale 

Pennsylvania continues to set the pace for recycling produced water for fracking in the Marcellus shale, with more than 60% of the 25 million barrels...
8 May. 2017
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