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Industrial Water: Trends, Deals, and Policy in Water Management, Q3 2021 

“Water positivity” takes hold within corporate water sustainability. Since Microsoft announced its goal to become water positive by 2030, companies across various industries including PepsiCo, Facebook, and IKEA have followed suit.

Stream of Innovation: Tech, R&D and Current Drivers in Distribution System Management 

State of the Water Industry 2021 

Tampa Bay Water’s Practical Approach to Digital Transformation with Alison Adams 

Alison Adams, now Chief Technology Officer at INTERA, drove innovation at Tampa Bay Water when she helped pioneer Tampa Bay Water’s digital transformation. Alison provides firsthand knowledge about...

Water Mergers & Acquisitions: Trends and Deal Flow, Q3 2021 

The first half of 2021 saw the highest six-month deal flow recorded by Bluefield to date with 239 deals. The private water and digital water segments contributed the lion’s share of deals, while the midstream, diversified, and network and distribution segments saw the greatest growth in deal flow relative to H1 2020.

The Role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Digital Water 



GIS facilitates integration, coordination, and analysis of disparate hardware and software, workers and processes, and departments and datasets across space and time. Bluefield was pleased to collaborate with ESRI on a white paper addressing the role of GIS in Digital Water.

Could Greater Regulatory Acceptance Turbocharge Digital Water Market Growth? 

In August 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its decision to amend the City of South Bend, Indiana’s Clean Water Act consent decree. Issued in 2012 to address the City’...

Drought, Demand, Politics Shake Chile Copper Mining 

In August 2021, Chile’s courts ordered the BHP Group to temporarily cease groundwater pumping at the Cerro Colorado copper mine due to environmental concerns with the underlying aquifer. This moratorium comes one month after Chilean-based copper mining group, Antofagasta, announced in July that it was cutting their 2021 production target by 20,000 tonnes due to water shortages.

Why ESG Needs to Guide Corporate Decision-Making with Claudia Toussaint 

Claudia Toussaint, General Counsel of Xylem, provides a terrific discussion of ESG issues from the perspective of a publicly traded corporation’s general counsel. In a nutshell, Claudia describes ho...

U.S. Private Water: Key Trends, M&A Activity, and Market Outlook Q3 2021 

Given its record-breaking number of acquisition approvals, the second quarter of 2021 demonstrates continued growth in M&A for water & wastewater utilities. At this rate, 2021 acquisitions could surpass the 2020 total by the end of Q3, begging the question of whether the growing rate of acquisitions is the result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a more permanent market shift, or just more aggressive players in the market.