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Ethan Edwards 

Ethan Edwards is a research director focused on supporting Bluefield’s industrial water insight service and consulting practice. Prior to joining Bluefield, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Nationa...

Net Zero: The Race We All Win with Xylem’s Austin Alexander 

Austin Alexander, Vice President of Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem, lays out key features of Xylem’s new report, Net Zero: The Race We All Win. Austin delves into simple ways to star...

Opportunities in Water: Launching a Digital Water Platform 

Tapping Water Utility Data for Business Strategies 

In this episode, our data team discusses Bluefield’s utility data and details the journey to collect and inventory 747 capital improvement plans that have been scrubbed and cleaned for Bluefie...

Digital Water: Key Trends, Project Activity, and Market Outlook, Q3 2022 

The US$25.9 billion global digital water market has faced significant headwinds throughout 2022, including ongoing supply chain disruption, rising prices and interest rates, COVID-19 lockdowns in key markets, and the destabilization caused by the Russia-Ukraine war. These challenges have driven a broad downturn in M&A and VC activity across countries and industries, impacting digital water companies despite steady growth in projects and investments. 

U.S. & Canada Pipe Market Overview – Plastic Pipes Institute 

Bluefield's water experts presented on the state of the U.S. & Canada pipe market, infrastructure funding, and market outlook at the Plastics Pipe Institute 2022 semi-annual meeting in Louisville, KY.

Top Tech Trends to Watch in the Global Water Utility Sector – Xylem Reach Conference 

In a presentation at the Xylem Reach 2022 Conference in Washington, DC, Bluefield's digital water experts highlight the most critical digital technologies shaping the water sector and trends to watch in a fast-changing, global water market.

Next Level Asset Management with MentorAPM Co-founder & CEO Tacoma Zach 

MentorAPM Co-founder & CEO, Tacoma Zach, takes us on a fantastic ride covering asset management and how it helps utilities manage their most important assets. In this session, you’ll learn about...

AMCS Aims to Bridge Water, Solid Waste Silos 

On 13 September 2022, Irish waste management & recycling software solutions provider Advanced Manufacturing Control Systems (AMCS) Group announced its acquisition of Utility Cloud, a U.S.-based digital water software startup.

Water Mergers & Acquisitions: Trends and Deal Flow, Q3 2022 

The pace of global water M&A continues to lag behind 2021, falling back to pre-pandemic levels. To date, Bluefield has recorded 193 deals in 2022—well short of the 511 transactions of the prior year. The annual average over the last six years has been 327 deals, though this is slightly skewed by the past two years’ above-average numbers.