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17 Jun 2025

Water Mergers & Acquisitions: Trends and Deal Flow, Q2 2025  
The water sector entered a more cautious M&A environment in 2025, with only 71 deals recorded in the first half of the year—down from 202 in H1 2024. This contraction reflects a broader hesitancy among strategic buyers, driven by equity market turbulence, sluggish economic growth, and increased regulatory uncertainty.

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Europe Municipal Water Infrastructure: Utility Strategies & CAPEX Forecasts, 2016-2025 

Bluefield forecasts Europe's municipal utility capital expenditures for water and wastewater infrastructure across Europe to reach US$525 billion between 2016 and 2025. More than US$256...
25 Sep. 2016
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Smart Water Meters in Europe: Utility Strategies Drive Adoption, 2016-2020 

Market insight analyzing utility strategies to drive smart water meter adoption. Available for purchase and immediate download European water utilities are deploying new strategies to become more...
27 Oct. 2016
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Europe’s Private Water Utilities: Company Profiles, Rankings, & Trends, 2016 

Europe's top 15 consolidated private water utilities serve over 147 million of people in 11 countries, covering just under 30% of total population.
2 Nov. 2016
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Leakage Management in Europe: Water Utilities Develop Multi-Vendor Strategies 

Leakage management has emerged as a major priority for Europe’s water utilities to reduce non-revenue water. New market insight available for purchase.
1 Dec. 2016
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Europe Smart Water: Market Forecasts and Utility Strategies, 2017-2025 

Europe’s water industry is on pace to lead the world toward smarter municipal supply networks. With a focus on metering, leakage management, and energy efficiency
28 Jan. 2017
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Water Network for Energy Efficiency: Europe’s Utilities Address Key Supply, Treatment Segments 

Energy efficiency has become a key priority of European utilities. A combination of policy, market factors, and local network characteristics are driving water utilities
28 Jan. 2017
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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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Global Smart Water: Market Trends, Competitive Shifts, & Project Activity H1 2017 

Smart water project announcements in the first half of 2017 were driven by utility responses to water scarcity, complying with local market regulations, and vendor...
14 Jul. 2017
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Water Solutions for Commercial Building Infrastructure: Market Dynamics and Competitive Landscape (France, Germany, UK) 

As European governments strive toward energy-efficiency targets of 2030 and the broader goal to establish a decarbonized building stock by 2050, water management within buildings...
17 Oct. 2017
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Venture Capital in Water: Key Transactions and Trends 

As start-ups develop new solutions for a risk-averse municipal water sector, venture capital is a key channel of funding to bridge a lengthy process in...
7 Dec. 2017
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