Private Water is on the Verge of a Comeback
North America (PRWEB) February 06, 2015 -- The market for private sector participation in the water sector is on the threshold of significant change. How can those looking to deploy capital and those selling their expertise into the sector make the most of these opportunities?
Private Sector Participation in Water report published by Global Water intelligence (GWI) presents readers with a crucial insight into the emerging trends to drive the success of their business in the decade to come.
The new private water market looks set to be much more diverse than the first private water boom during the 1990s. It brings together a much larger cast of regional and local players, as well as more specialist international companies looking to develop niche service markets.
“The outlook is bright for the private water market, and there will be significant changes within five years as utilities turn to the Private sector to make up for public sector deficits. Private investors and operators need to be ready to anticipate and act on the opportunities on the horizon in this sector.” Christopher Gasson, publisher, adds: “This report gives a detailed analysis of the trends driving change and global forecasts for the market value of operations contracts, and capital investment and regional market size forecasts.”
The study details emerging investment trends and global and regional market size forecasts, pinpointing the key players in operation contracts and capital investment markets, and includes a comprehensive database of private water projects since 2000 and 20 Country Extended Profiles.
The report’s findings reveal that increasingly the greatest demand for private expertise is in more limited services offerings, these include:
• Management contracts
• Performance contracts
• Specific service contracts
• Build-operate-transfer (BOT)
• Design-build-operate (DBO)
The largest markets for private sector participation are the UK, the US, Brazil, China and France. The report predicts that the French domestic market may shrink slightly between now and 2020, while no new opportunities are expected in the UK. Meanwhile, China and Brazil will continue to offer opportunities both for utility concessions and for asset finance and operations.
The fastest growing markets it says will be countries which have a relatively small amount of current activity, but which have made a policy decision to support PPP include Egypt, Vietnam, India, Canada and Saudi Arabia.
Spending on projects featuring private sector participation is expected to outstrip spending on water utility services overall. Within the wastewater sector, total spend is growing slightly faster than drinking water with the fastest growing areas including sludge management and water reuse. The utility operations sector is the slowest growing area of the market, but management/ performance contracts and knowledge-based services contracts are expected to deliver good growth rates.
Private Sector Participation in Water includes asset procurement, utility outsourcing, country profiles, company profiles and more. View the report page complete with table of contents and download a free sample chapter at: http://www.globalwaterintel.com/PSPreport
Emma Wheal, Global Water Intelligence, http://www.globalwaterintel.com, +44 1865204208, [email protected]
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