Advanced Technologies for Municipal Water Treatment

Report Scope:
This report examines the market for four categories of advanced municipal water treatment: filtration technology, ultraviolet irradiation, ozone disinfection, and some novel advanced oxidation processes (chlorination).Five-year projections are provided for market activity and value.

The report will provide a detailed analysis of key trends and opportunities that will aid in the growth of the market.It will also analyze the major challenges faced by the municipal water treatment industry.

Technological trends, industry structure, pricing considerations, R&D, government regulations, company profiles, and competitive technologies are also included in the study.

The report is primarily a study of the U.S. market, but due to the international presence of some industry participants, the global market is also included. The regions considered in the global study are North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of the World.

The report will also have a separate section highlighting the impact of COVID-19 on advanced technologies for the municipal water treatment market, particularly in the U.S. The section will include the impact of COVID-19 on demand and supply of municipal water treatment technologies, price impact, and various strategic decisions taken by government to boost the market.

The market size and estimations are provided in terms of value ($ millions), with 2020 as the base year and a market forecast for 2021 to 2026.Regional and country-level market size, with respect to filtration systems and advanced disinfection systems, are also provided.

The impact of COVID-19 will be considered while estimating the market size.

Some of the novel treatment technologies included in the report are chloramines, chlorine dioxide, on-site sodium hypochlorite, and mixed oxidants. Market size and estimations for these novel treatment technologies are provided only for the U.S. market, not for the global market.

Report Includes:
- 38 data tables and 46 additional tables
- An updated review of the U.S. and global markets for advanced municipal water treatment technologies
- Analyses of the global market trends, with data from 2020, estimates for 2021, and projections of compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) through 2026
- Evaluation and forecast the advanced municipal water treatment market size (in USD millions), and corresponding market share analysis by filtration technology, type of disinfection system, and region
- Discussion of the major market dynamics (DROs) for municipal water treatment, technological trends, industry structure, pricing considerations, R&D activities, government regulations, and competitive technologies within the marketplace
- Coverage of membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology as a subsegment of the filtration technology segment
- Information on water supply enhancement, augmentation and beneficial reuse; coverage of enhanced regulatory compliance and current wastewater infrastructure statuses
- Highlights of the impact of COVID-19 on advanced municipal water treatment technologies market, particularly in the U.S.
- An updated list of mergers, acquisitions, product launches, divestitures, and achievements that have taken place in the recent years
- Insight into the growth development strategies of key market players operating within the global market; their key competitive landscape and company share analysis
- Descriptive company profiles of all the leading manufacturers of advanced water treatment technologies. Major players including 3M Co., Alfa Laval, DuPont de Nemours Inc., Koch Separation Solutions, Pall Corp., Toray Industries Inc., and Xylem, Inc.

Summary:
The U.S. market for advanced water technologies is made up of filtration technology, ozone disinfection, UV irradiation, and novel oxidation processes was valued at $REDACTED in 2020 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of REDACTED% through 2026. The global market for advanced water technologies was valued at $REDACTED in 2020 and is expected to reach $REDACTED by 2026, growing at a CAGR of REDACTED% from 2021 to 2026.

Government regulation of drinking water contaminants is the most important element in forecasting growth in this market. Additional market drivers are the growing U.S. population, with 79 million additional Americans expected by 2060 and a deteriorating water infrastructure. The major market inhibitor relates to limited financial resources, such as the level of federal and state spending, and continuing economic uncertainties that curb public sector borrowing.

For the membrane technologies used in desalination, a growing water shortage in many areas is also a major factor in the industry’s future.The growing global water shortage is one of the most serious crises of the twenty-first century.

While water supply has always been a critical issue in the arid Middle East, U.S. water shortages are a more recent and frightening prospect. Reverse osmosis (RO) desalination of brackish (mixed salt and fresh) water and seawater can bring increased potable supplies at surprisingly low cost. Electrodialysis reversal (EDR) and nanofiltration (NF) also have a niche in converting brackish water to fresh.

In the 1990s, waterborne disease outbreaks in the U.S. and Canada alerted utilities to the inefficiency of standard treatment processes. Plant operators discovered these shortfalls could be addressed, however, by implementing a physical barrier to the microbes with the low-pressure membrane methods of microfiltration (MF) and ultrafiltration (UF).

Membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology, on the other hand, was also considered as an efficient method in the early 2000s as it removes all contaminants including biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), bacteria, phosphorus, nitrogen, and total suspended solids from the water. Together, in the U.S. the five membrane treatments and the MBR technique for the municipal drinking water market were valued at $REDACTED in 2020, with a predicted CAGR of REDACTED% for the forecast period. At the global level, these five technologies and the MBR technique together were valued at $REDACTED in 2020 and will grow at a CAGR of REDACTED% from 2021 to 2026.

As an alternative to imposing a physical barrier to pathogens, potable water also can be rid of most dangerous disease microbes through disinfection; this is most commonly accomplished by adding chlorine. The discovery that chlorine can create harmful by-products in the presence of organics in surface water feeds has led to a range of replacement disinfectants including ozone, UV, and some novel oxidants.