The Digital Water Revolution: Global Digital Water Market Forecasts, 2022-2030

3 Jun 2022
Market Forecasts / 35 pages
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The digital water revolution is here. In fact, digital water spend is expected to grow more than three times as fast as the global water market, with double-digit growth for select markets and segments.

This global digital water forecast provides a comprehensive analysis of the global market for digital water hardware, software, services, and connectivity. Bluefield evaluates key market trends, drivers, and inhibitors shaping the global outlook for digital water solutions and breaks down the forecast by technology, geography, and utility size to highlight emerging pockets of opportunity. With a transparent methodology based on hundreds of bottom-up qualitative and quantitative market inputs, Bluefield’s global digital water forecast offers a highly nuanced view of the current state and future trajectory of digital adoption in the global water, wastewater, and stormwater sector.

In this global digital water forecast, Bluefield forecasts the outlook for 34 established and emerging digital water technology segments across four major categories and 45 countries to provide the complete picture of digital water market opportunities, globally.

Sample Takeaways:

  • A series of technological, regulatory, financial, and environmental drivers are providing strong tailwinds for the global digital water market, even in the face of COVID-related supply chain disruptions, workforce volatility, and rising inflation.
  • Amidst a highly fragmented landscape of more than 400,000 global water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities, digital service providers are presenting a wide range of technologies, solutions, and business models to address demand that varies by utility size and geography.
  • Bluefield projects that total global digital water spend will scale at an 8.8% CAGR from US$25.9 billion in 2021 to US$55.2 billion in 2030. The 45 leading markets covered in this Insight Report account for nearly 90.0% of the 10-year, US$387.5 billion market opportunity.