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Water for Chemicals: Market Trends and Forecasts, 2023–2030 

The chemical sector market forecast focuses on water usage, geographic variability, and key pockets of opportunity. Bluefield’s forecast methodology considers a variety of market and macroeconomic variables, including chemical industry trends, inflationary pressures, facility-level usage, and policy incentives. This report lays out Bluefield’s 2023–2030 forecast for water for chemical capital expenditure and operating expenditure.

Oldcastle Cements Digital Water Strategy via Partnerships and M&A 

On 1 August 2023, Oldcastle Infrastructure and FIDO Tech announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the U.S. market entry of FIDO’s artificial intelligence-powered leak detection software. This partnership is the latest in a series of recent maneuvers by Oldcastle to gain a foothold in the digital water solutions market.

Energy Recovery’s Water Story with Rodney Clemente 

Energy Recovery, Inc.’s Senior Vice President of Water, Rodney Clemente shares how using energy recovery technologies, the water sector saves energy, becomes more sustainable and delivers water at a...

Aegion Adds More Deals to the List 

The Future of Water host, Reese Tisdale, talks with Bluefield’s Senior Analyst Ethan Edwards about the Aegion deal, M&A, and the trenchless pipe rehabilitation market. In this episode, the B...

Third-Party O&M for U.S. Water & Wastewater Utilities, 2023 

Enabled by lower barriers to entry across a fragmented addressable market, third-party O&M providers represent the bulk of private participation in the U.S. Bluefield has identified more than 2,000 O&M contracts from the 1970s that represent the foundation for market sizing by contracts, system sizes by population, and values.

Morocco Looks to Desalination for Water Sustainability 

On 5 July 2023, Morocco’s Ministry of Equipment, Transport, Logistics and Water and the OCP Group initiated the construction of new desalination projects for the cities of Safi and El Jadida. The projects’ average cumulative capacity of 85 million m3/year between 2023 and 2025 will scale up to 110 million m3/year in 2027.

The Future of Water: In the Challenges, Lie the Opportunities 

Aegion Expands Water Pipeline Services via M&A 

On 31 July 2023, St. Louis, Missouri-based Aegion Corporation announced its acquisition of Portland Utilities Construction Company (PUCC). Founded in 1991, PUCC is a trenchless service provider specializing in cured-in-place pipe and pipe bursting.

An Exit Interview with Retired Denver Water CEO Jim Lochhead 

Retired Denver Water CEO Jim Lochhead reflects back on his career(s) in water. In this wide-ranging interview, Jim discusses the challenges on the Colorado River, good leadership and its attributes, h...

Madrid Meter Contract Signals Market Boost 

On 13 June 2023, Canal de Isabel II, the public utility in charge of water and wastewater services in the region of Madrid, Spain, awarded an advanced metering infrastructure tender to Vodafone and Telefónica worth over €73.6 million (US$82.7 million).