In 2005, the total value of the U.S. water recycling and reuse industry was over $2.1 billion. BCC predicts that total market revenue will grow at an average annual rate of just over 8.8% through 2010, yielding total revenue in 2010 of just under $3.3 billion. Landscape and agricultural irrigation make up the largest shares of total water reuse. These applications will continue to grow through 2010 (at 12.4% and 10.3%, respectively), though the industrial market will grow the most quickly, at 14.2%. The overall market revenue growth rate of 8.8% reflects the fact that significant innovation is still occurring, making technologies more accessible to a greater number of potential buyers, as well as the fact that the underlying market ? the wastewater recycling and reuse market ? is heading into a replacement phase.

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Forecast of the U.S. Water Recycling and Reuse Industry Revenue, 2003-2010 ($ Millions) ??????Source: BCC Research

INTRODUCTION

As we become ever more acutely aware of the growing water crisis, we begin to look to ways to assuage it. Water recycling and reuse is one of those ways. BCC conducted this study specifically to look at this important industry and how it is growing and responding to water conservation efforts around the world.

This important report offers a roadmap for new developments in the way we deal with one of our most precious natural resources. Only by analyzing the water recycling and reuse industry as it is today and by considering the factors that drive demand for recycling and reuse technologies tomorrow may we chart an informed path into the future.

Specifically, the report describes the companies that manufacture water recycling and reuse technologies; the most prevalent technologies available for recycling and reuse; the utilization rate of each technology; the factors that influence recycling and reuse activities; and lastly, markets and applications for which recycling and reuse technologies are produced.

This study will be valuable to agencies on the front lines of the effort to develop sustainable water plans for the future. But this report will also be invaluable to those firms involved in manufacturing water recycling and reuse technologies. They face a potentially enormous increase in demand for their products and services in the coming years. Not only will the study offer them information about what their competitors are doing, it also will offer a detailed analysis of the key factors that drive reuse ? the same factors that will determine the future of the market.

SCOPE OF STUDY

The report contains:

• The 13 most prevalent recycling and reuse technologies in the U.S. market as well as the markets and applications those technologies serve.
• A detailed look at the factors that will drive the growth of the recycling and reuse market, as well as sources of project funding and regulation requirements.
• Market sizes and five-year forecasts covering the technologies and applications.
• A breakdown of the industry structure as well as profiles for the top companies in the market.
• An in-depth discussion of global markets for water recycling and reuse.
• A patent analysis.