The Future of Water

By Bluefield Research

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The Future of Water is Bluefield Research’s bi-monthly podcast examining the strategic, regulatory, and market dynamics shaping the global water sector. Spanning municipal and industrial markets, and extending from technology providers to investors, each episode focuses on the signals that matter—capital flows, policy developments, and business model shifts impacting opportunities in water. Hosted by Reese Tisdale, along with Bluefield’s team of water experts, the podcast delivers data-backed analysis and practical insights into how these developments are influencing strategies across the water industry value chain. To learn more about Bluefield Research visit: www.bluefieldresearch.com. Contact us at podcasts@bluefieldresearch.com with any topic suggestions or requests for information.

Episode Date
Inside Europe’s €643 Billion Stormwater Opportunity: Who's Positioned To Capitalize?
May 19, 2026
Is Australia the Blueprint for the Future of Water?
May 05, 2026
Your Water Questions Answered: Bonds, Energy, Irrigation, and Tech
Apr 14, 2026
Why Are U.S. Water and Sewer Bills Rising Faster Than Inflation?
Mar 31, 2026
Water for Agriculture: An US$84 Billion Irrigation Opportunity
Mar 17, 2026
The US$10 Billion Market Nobody Talks About: Chemicals for Water Treatment
Mar 03, 2026
Debunking the Myths of the Data Center Water Footprint
Feb 17, 2026
When States Lose Veto Power: The New Water Policy Landscape
Feb 03, 2026
Water Runs on Power: The Energy Lever Utilities Can’t Ignore
Jan 20, 2026
Year-End Water Check: AI's Thirst, Aging Infrastructure, and 2026 Contrarian Bets
Dec 23, 2025
What Does a Decade of Fair Market Deals Tell Us About Water’s Future?
Dec 09, 2025
From Landfill Capacity to PFAS: The Pressures Reshaping Biosolids Management
Nov 18, 2025
Is Water Reuse Going Mainstream?
Nov 04, 2025
What’s at Stake When Cyber Threats Target Water Infrastructure?
Oct 21, 2025
How Did Midstream Water Become a US$26 Billion-a-Year Business?
Oct 07, 2025
TAQA’s US$1.2 Billion Move: What Does GS Inima Bring to the Global Water Market?
Sep 23, 2025
What Do 2025 Capital Improvement Plans Reveal About Water Utility Spending?
Sep 09, 2025
Why Don’t We Care About Water?
Aug 26, 2025
Industrial Water Showdown: Comparing Opportunities Across Europe and the U.S.
Aug 12, 2025
Canada’s New Water Agency and the 'Big Beautiful Bill': What's Next for Water Funding in North America?
Jul 29, 2025
What’s Driving the Market for Decentralized Water Treatment?
Jul 15, 2025
How Investor-Owned Utilities Are Reshaping the U.S. Water Market Through M&A?
Jul 01, 2025
How is Europe's Water Sector Responding to Climate and Regulatory Pressure?
Jun 17, 2025
Quenching High Tech's Thirst: The Rising Water Demands of Data Centers and Semiconductors
Jun 03, 2025
Water Metering’s Digital Shift: Platforms, Analytics, and AI Integration
May 20, 2025
Big Spend, Bigger Stakes: The Next 10 Years in U.S. Water & Wastewater Treatment Infrastructure
May 06, 2025
Water in Transition: Signals From the Top 50 Companies
Apr 22, 2025
Clarifying the Chaos in Washington: Answering Top Questions on U.S. Water Policy
Apr 08, 2025
What’s Fueling Spain’s Data Center Growth—and Will It Last?
Mar 25, 2025
Herc, Sunbelt, and United: How Recent M&A Is Reshaping the Water Equipment Rental Market
Mar 11, 2025
The Digital Water Playbook: Who’s Investing, What’s Changing, and Why It Matters
Feb 25, 2025
Will Spanish Engineering Firms Reshape the Global Water Landscape?
Feb 11, 2025
What's the Price of Your Household Water?
Jan 28, 2025
Diehl Metering’s Digital Water Leap Powered by Analytics-focused Acquisition
Jan 14, 2025
2024 in Water, What Mattered the Most?
Dec 24, 2024
From Pharma to Energy, What's Driving Growth in Water-Intensive Industries?
Dec 10, 2024
Strategic Moves Reshaping the Water Sector
Nov 26, 2024
How Are Hardware, Equipment, and Services Distributors Driving Change in the Water Sector?
Nov 12, 2024
Flood Management Under Pressure: Europe's Response to Storm Boris
Oct 29, 2024
San Francisco vs. the EPA: What's at Stake for the Future of Water Regulation?
Oct 08, 2024
Show Me the Money: Where Are Utilities Investing in Water?
Sep 24, 2024
Private Equity Adds Water Treatment Chemicals to Their Playbook
Sep 10, 2024
Uncharted Waters: Are U.K. Utilities Ready for the AMP8 Investment Cycle?
Aug 27, 2024
From Milestones to Predictions: What’s Next for the Future of Water?
Aug 06, 2024
How Will the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Shape the Future of Water Management?
Jul 23, 2024
Answering Ten Burning Questions about the Private Water Industry
Jul 09, 2024
What's Driving Rapid Growth in U.S. Stormwater Management?
Jun 25, 2024
Three Industries Shaping Industrial Water Management
Jun 11, 2024
Emerging Trends and Foreign Investment Opportunities in Spain's Water Market
May 21, 2024
How Would a Potential Schneider-Bentley Deal Shake Up the Water Sector?
May 07, 2024
Regulating PFAS in Drinking Water: Who Will Bear the Burden?
Apr 23, 2024
AI Opportunities and Impacts for Utility Construction Firms in Water
Apr 09, 2024
The Emergence of Collaborative Delivery for Water
Mar 26, 2024
IIJA Project Funding Update: Where Are the Dollars Now?
Mar 12, 2024
What is Private Equity's Role in Digital Water?
Feb 27, 2024
What's the State of Private Participation in Water?
Feb 13, 2024
The Role of 8 Japanese Trading Houses in Water
Jan 30, 2024
Badger Meter, Trimble Change Lanes in Digital Water
Jan 16, 2024
Looking into 2024: Key Water Trends to Watch in the EU
Jan 02, 2024
Latest Trends in Industrial Water Management
Dec 12, 2023
From City to City, Why Are Water Utility Rates So Variable?
Nov 27, 2023
What’s Behind the Decline in the Water Utility Workforce?
Nov 15, 2023
Are Take-Private Water Deals on the Rise?
Oct 31, 2023
Saltwater Intrusion In Drinking Water Is More Common Than You May Realize. What Are the Mitigation Options?
Oct 09, 2023
What Are the Financial Opportunities and Challenges Facing Water Utilities?
Oct 03, 2023
How Are Water Utilities Prioritizing Infrastructure Spend and Outsourcing Strategies?
Sep 19, 2023
Aegion Adds More Deals to the List
Sep 05, 2023
Grundfos Goes Deeper Into Digital Water
Aug 08, 2023
Water Reuse Builds Momentum in Europe
Jul 25, 2023
How Real Is the Thames Water Crisis?
Jul 11, 2023
A Review of the State of the Water Industry
Jun 20, 2023
What's the Addressable Market for Water Utility Consolidation?
Jun 06, 2023
What's Behind Engineering Firms' Strategy Shifts in Water?
May 23, 2023
Will Semiconductor Boom Drive Water Market Opportunities?
May 02, 2023
EU Regulators Ramp Up PFAS Action for Drinking Water, Biosolids
Apr 18, 2023
A Perfect Storm: Tribal Infrastructure Investment, Western Water, and the U.S. Supreme Court
Apr 04, 2023
Digital Disruption In The Century-old Water Metering Market
Mar 21, 2023
IOU Acquisition Trends: States & Buyers to Watch and Deal Drivers
Feb 28, 2023
The EU's Sweeping Push for Corporate Sustainability
Feb 14, 2023
Xylem + Evoqua = What Does It Mean for the Water Industry?
Jan 31, 2023
IIJA: Water Funding and Policy Developments
Jan 17, 2023
PFAS: Where Is the U.S. Water Market and beyond Headed?
Dec 06, 2022
What's Behind the Rise in Private Participation in Water?
Nov 22, 2022
Which Municipalities Are Driving Climate and Water Sustainability?
Nov 08, 2022
Tapping Water Utility Data for Business Strategies
Oct 25, 2022
Water M&A, Recent Deals, Trends, and Outlook 
Oct 11, 2022
Who’s messin’ with Texas Water Utilities
Sep 27, 2022
We've Been Talkin' 'bout Jackson
Sep 13, 2022
Water Sector Gatekeepers: Engineering Firms Build Out Digital Water Strategies
Aug 30, 2022
How Will the Inflation Reduction Act Reshape Water Market Opportunities?
Aug 16, 2022
The Heat Is On: The State of the Global Water Market
Jul 26, 2022
Breaking Down the Global Desalination Market
Jul 12, 2022
Build America, Buy America: What Does It Mean for the Water Sector?
Jun 21, 2022
Milestone Episode: Disruptors, Winners & Losers, and Trends in Water
Jun 07, 2022
California Drought, Blackouts, and the End for Desalination?
May 24, 2022
Six Trends Shaping the Longer-Term Outlook for Water
May 03, 2022
Is a Market for Residential Water Reuse Developing?
Apr 19, 2022
Digital Water Trends and Market Review
Apr 05, 2022
A Closer Look at IIJA and State Revolving Funds
Mar 15, 2022
Looming Energy Crisis to Squeeze Water & Wastewater Utilities
Mar 01, 2022
Is Household Water Management Overlooked as an Opportunity?
Feb 01, 2022
Bottled Water Craze Raises Questions about Water Quality & Utility Strategies
Jan 18, 2022
Retrospective: The Biggest Stories in Water in 2021
Dec 21, 2021
Workforce Disruption: Who do Utilities Call for Help?
Dec 07, 2021
Water Wins Big in Infrastructure Bill
Nov 23, 2021
Deals, Deals, Deals
Nov 09, 2021
What Did We Learn at the World’s Largest Wastewater Conference?
Oct 26, 2021
Drought, Floods Disrupt Global Water Sector
Oct 12, 2021
Tight Supply Chains Squeeze the Water Industry
Sep 14, 2021
Do Droughts Impact Household Water Rates?
Aug 31, 2021
How Have Water Utilities Fared from COVID?
Aug 17, 2021
A Review: State of the Water Industry
Jul 27, 2021
The "Amazon Effect" on Water
Jul 13, 2021
Does California Deserve All the Drought Shaming?
Jun 29, 2021
What We Think about… When We Think about Water
Jun 16, 2021
Telecom Strategies Emerge at the Center of Digital Water
Jun 01, 2021
Cloud Solutions Opening Door to Smaller Water Utilities
May 18, 2021
Veolia and Suez Come to Terms, Redefining "Big Water"
May 04, 2021
What’s the Outlook for Fixing America’s Lead Water Pipes?
Apr 20, 2021
Water Stress Undermines Global Supply Chains
Apr 06, 2021
World Water Day
Mar 23, 2021
Special Episode: Big Acquisitions in Water Are a Big Deal
Mar 09, 2021
Is Texas Water Crisis a Harbinger of Climate Risk?
Mar 09, 2021
Digging into the Aegion/New Mountain Megadeal
Feb 23, 2021
Will a Biden Administration Really Impact Water Sector Investment?
Feb 09, 2021
Are Municipalities Benefitting from Fair Market Value Legislation?
Jan 26, 2021
New Year Episode: Biggest Headlines, Challenges, and Trends Influencing Global Water
Jan 10, 2021
Water for Power: The Remaking of the Electricity Landscape and its Impact on Water
Dec 21, 2020
Are Homes Getting Smarter with Real-time Water Management?
Dec 07, 2020
Brazil Looks to Private Participation in Water
Nov 30, 2020
The Role of Private Equity in Water
Nov 10, 2020
Playing Devil’s Advocate – What’s the Outlook for Municipal Water Infrastructure Investment?
Oct 26, 2020
Seeing Double, The Rise of the Digital Twins in Water
Oct 05, 2020
Is Veolia Suez Marriage Good for the Water Sector?
Sep 21, 2020
Prepare to Fill Up Your Bathtubs
Sep 08, 2020
Let's Make a Deal
Aug 11, 2020
Can Wastewater Save Lives?
Jul 30, 2020
Money, Money, Money: Revenue Declines and Water Investment
Jun 30, 2020
Breaking and Entering: Water Sector Cybersecurity
Jun 19, 2020
Toilet Paper Costs More Than Oil
Jun 19, 2020
Crisis Leads to Digital Acceleration
Jun 19, 2020
Get Smart in Water
Jun 19, 2020
Future of Water (Trailer)
Jun 19, 2020