Datamonitor's Water Utilities: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the water utilities industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global water utilities industry generated total revenues of $445.6 billion in 2005, representing a 3.7% increase over 2004 and a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.5% for the five-year period spanning 2001-2005.

Provision of water to industrial customers is the industry’s most abundant source of value worldwide by a small margin, accounting for 40.3% of the total revenues.

Looking forward, the industry is forecast to maintain its current performance.

Innovation in sustainable water technology is being leveraged to cope with the global water shortage.

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Definition

The water utilities industry consists of all water that is collected, treated and distributed to end-users. The industry is valued using average annual end-user prices alongside consumption volumes. All currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2005 annual average exchange rates. For the purposes of this report, Europe comprises Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, Taiwan, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

The Americas consists of Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States.

The global industry refers to Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.