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23 Dec 2025

Energy Optimization for Water Utilities: A Digital Playbook for Cost and Carbon Reduction 
Energy costs rank among the top three operating expenses for water utilities, offering significant opportunities for cost savings. Energy use in the water sector accounts for 11% to as much as 40% in operational expenditure. This substantial portion and range underscores the potential for optimizing energy costs across the water cycle.

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Global Smart Water: Market Trends, Competitive Shifts, & Project Activity, First Half 2018 

In the first half of 2018, Bluefield identified 177 smart water projects, globally, up 4% by over the same period last year. Projects were largely...
3 Aug. 2018
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U.S. Municipal Utility Operating Expenditure (OPEX) Forecast, 2018-2027 

This Data Insight provides a forecast of the municipal water utility landscape in the U.S. over the next ten years.  Operating expenditures are broken down...
10 Sep. 2018
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Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure – Latin America 

This Market Insight covers the policies and economics of PPPs in Latin America.  Bluefield provides an in-depth view of the PPP landscape in each country,...
17 Sep. 2018
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Competitive Landscape in Water: Engineering Procurement & Construction Firm Rankings and Positioning, 2018 

Engineering procurement and construction (EPC) firms play a pivotal role in the decision-making processes for municipal water and wastewater utilities. While their expansive capabilities range,...
27 Sep. 2018
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Venture and Growth Capital: Transactions & Trends in Digital Water, 2009-2018 

Venture capital continues to emerge as a key financing mechanism to accelerate growth, particularly as academic spin-offs and new market entrants seek to scale in...
18 Oct. 2018
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Opportunities in U.S. Industrial Water: Market Size, Trends, and Forecast, 2018-2022 

Industrial demand for water & wastewater management, from supply to discharge, is gaining intensity. Major U.S. industries discharge over 130 billion gallons of water per...
10 Dec. 2018
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The U.S. Water Conference Landscape: Focus, Themes, and Corporate Influencers, 2018 

Bluefield Research has embarked upon analysis of 2,649 conference proceedings at eleven regional and national conferences in 2018 to identify key influencers, both corporate and...
19 Nov. 2018
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Opportunities in Canadian Industrial Water: Market Size, Trends, and Forecast, 2019-2023 

Economically, the market for industrial water management Canada – acquisition, treatment, reuse – exceeded US$1.36 billion in 2018. Bluefield's analysis covering over 7,500 industrial facilities...
24 Jan. 2019
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U.K. Municipal Water: Market Performance and Outlook for 2020-2025 

2019 is a pivotal year for the privatized water and wastewater services companies in the U.K. They are all currently with regulator Ofwat on price...
19 Feb. 2019
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Sizing Industrial Water Markets: Analysis of OECD Countries Beyond U.S. & Canada, 2019-2023 

Industrial withdrawals in OECD countries beyond the United States and Canada are expected to increase by 2.2 billion gallons per day from 2019 through 2023...
6 Mar. 2019
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