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Where We Have Been in a Year: Water Market Perspectives 

Global and national water market perspectives available free to online registrants

A presentation by Bluefield President Reese Tisdale at the Invest H20 Conference in Austin, Texas.  This presentation analyzes key trends across global and national water markets, including:

• Population growth will place additional pressure on utility infrastructure, demanding greenfield capacity additions to keep pace.
• Aging water infrastructure in the Northeast and Midwest underpin the regions’ higher rehabilitation costs
• Increasing demand for alternative water supplies, including wastewater reuse and desalination, add to scaling needs for system upgrades
• The smart water value chain is undergoing significant change through M&A and increasing competition for positions in managing data and analytics for utilities
• Planned reuse capacity totals 8.4 million m3/d with anticipated CAPEX surpassing US$14.7 billion
• Investment in water treatment in the hydraulic fracturing sector is expected to total US$1.0 billion between 2016 and 2020

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Entrepreneurship in the Water Sector 

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Smart Water in the Mainstream // SWAN Presentation 

Analyst presentation on Smart Water industry by Keith Hays at the SWAN conference in London (April 2016)