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U.S. & Canada Municipal Capital Improvement Plans: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Utility Budget Outlook, 2022–2030 

Companies across the water industry value chain are always seeking an edge to better position their products and solutions against their peers. Bluefield supports companies with bottom-up data collection and analysis of the capital improvement plans (CIPs) of more than 700 large and mid-sized water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities across the U.S. and Canada.

Gripped by Polarization, U.K. Water Sector Needs Stability 

The recent proposal by the British Environment Secretary to raise the maximum cap on civil penalties for water pollution incidents—a 1,000-fold increase from £250,000 up to £250 million per v...

Which Municipalities Are Driving Climate and Water Sustainability? 

Bluefield’s industrial water experts breakdown their recent analysis of 35 large U.S. cities with climate action plans which evaluates greenhouse emissions, energy use, reduction strategies, and wat...

Policy Leadership Key to Water Reuse Development in Europe 

Currently, more than 700 water reuse projects in Europe are garnering significant attention in the wake of drought and extremely high temperatures that swept across the continent during the ...

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.