Global Water Treatment Technology Markets

BBC ResearchExamines and Provides a 2014 through 2019 Forecast for 15 Products Essential for Constructing, Maintaining and Operating WWT Systems in the 40 Most Important National Markets

Newspaper headlines and television documentaries warn us that humanity rapidly approaches a global water crisis with the potential to leave millions dead from thirst, starvation and wars to acquire freshwater resources. Archeologists confirm their pessimists pointing to the numerous communities that vanished when their seemingly infinite water resources disappeared. Fortunately, there is more to the story. Cities lost to water shortages are far more the exception than the rule. London, Paris, Rome, New York, indeed all of the world's major cities had at some point in their histories faced crises caused by an insufficient water supply or sanitation system. Those world capitals and thousands of smaller cities survived by applying technology to compensate for nature's inadequacies and human neglect.

In the developed world, the integration of water and wastewater treatment (WWT) technologies into the fabric of urban infrastructures is barely noticed, at least until a pipe breaks, flooding a street. It is on those rare occasions that the discovery of a section of pipe made of a hollowed tree reminds us that the overall structure of the water and sanitation industry remain unchanged and would likely be familiar to the operators of Rome's famed aqueducts. Similarly, the basic parts lists for modern systems continue to consist of a small number of commodities. In this study BCC Research forecasts the demand for those 15 core WWT products in the 40 robust national markets.

REASONS FOR DOING THIS STUDY

For more than a decade, there has been increasing fear that water shortages will create mass dislocations, and perhaps ignite global conflicts — water wars if you will. While those fears have merit, they overlook an essential historic truth. All of the problems associated with a lack of clean water or adequate sanitation readily yield to relatively simple, and in most cases inexpensive, solutions. Illuminated with the light of pragmatism, the feared water crisis is less daunting than it appears, and for those involved in supplying the WWT industry, there are enormous opportunities as the business climbs toward reaching $96 billion before the end of the decade.

The modern WWT business rests on three stable and somewhat predictable profit centers:
• Constructing new plants.
• Upgrading existing facilities.
• Supplying chemicals consumed in preparing clean water to end-users and making wastewater less noxious to receiving surface and ground waters.

Source: ReportBuyer

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