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The global water treatment market is valued at $145 billion.
In France, the water treatment market is largely influenced by three main uses: domestic, agricultural and industrial.
Investments by delegated water companies, excluding research and development, fluctuate between 750 and 800 million euros, mainly allocated to crucial transport and distribution infrastructure.
Domestic water consumption is declining.
Average water consumption per person per day is between 160 and 180 liters.
The industrial sector, which accounts for 16% of water volumes abstracted in France. The chemical industry leads the way in water consumption.
Agricultural water demand is the most volatile, as it is highly dependent on seasonal and annual rainfall.
Key players in the sector
- Veolia
- Suez
- Saur
- SCP
- Sogedo
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1 Market overview
1.1 Definition of the water treatment market
The water treatment market encompasses all activities aimed at harvest, distribute, allow use, but also to recovering waste water, purifying it and finally discharging it in the natural environment, or put them back into circulation for human use
The market players are local authorities, delegated private operators, public operators, framing bodies, pipefitters, equipment manufacturers and construction and engineering companies.
The French market is experiencing a true stability with a slight increase of 1.01% over the year 2019. Water consumption in France can be broken down into three uses:
- Domestic use (household, office and tertiary sector consumption) ;
- Agricultural use (crop irrigation and animal feed);
- Industrial use (extractive and productive industries, from which the energy use that corresponds to energy production is sometimes dissociated).
Domestic water consumption is declining in France while the population is growing. Sanitation stations are creating a fine network of water treatment plants to adapt to national consumption. These stations can be managed by public or private operators, but in all cases work in close collaboration with local authorities and the water agency
In the future, more circularity can be expected in the sector, with better reuse of treated water and sewage sludge. These sustainable behaviours are greatly encouraged by the European authorities and should lead to economies of scale.
1.2 Key figures for the global market
The world water treatment market is experiencing strong growth, driven by growing needs in agriculture, but also by sectors that are relatively small today but will become very strategic in the years to come: seawater desalination and wastewater treatment.
According to Market Research Expertz The water treatment market is worth $*** billion ...
1.3 The French water treatment market
To get an idea of the size of the water treatment market in France, we will focus this study on two NAF codes
**.**Z: Water collection, treatment and distribution **.**Z: Wastewater collection and treatment.
Let us first note that in France water services are activities recognized as "essential to the ...
2 Demand Analysis
2.1 Water consumption in France
The different uses of water in France
In ****, the BIPE and the FP*E published the results of the * ᵉ edition of the BIPE study on public water and sanitation utilities. The study draws up a typology of the different uses of water withdrawn in France. Thus, in France, water consumption is ...
2.2 Domestic consumption
Annual abstraction of drinking water for domestic use
The report reveals that the volume of drinking water withdrawn in France has been declining since the ****s. Domestic consumption of water in France is declining even as the population increases.
Evolution of water withdrawals for domestic uses of the population France, ****-****, ...
2.3 Industrial and agricultural demand
Water uses in industry and agriculture
Industries are one of the main outlets for the water treatment market since **% of the volumes captured in France in **** were intended for industrial use [***] . Within the industry sector, the main consumer sub-segments are reported in the graph below
Distribution of freshwater abstraction for other, ...
2.4 Demand trend: towards a decrease in overall water consumption by 2030
The downward trend in domestic water consumption is also being felt in agricultural and industrial uses.
According to the report The water of the future, it is the tertiarisation of the economy that will be responsible for the decline in industrial use between now and ****.
With regard to agricultural uses, the ...
3 Market structure
3.1 The water treatment market value chain step by step
The value chain
Source: ****
Drinking water catchment
According to the * ᵉ edition of the BIPE study on water and sanitation utilities There are **,*** water withdrawal structures (***) to avoid water quality being impacted by pollution in particular. In ****, **% of the water produced will come from catchments that benefit from a protection perimeter.
The ...
3.2 Management of water catchment and treatment facilities and distribution of jobs
The management of water catchment installations
Drinking water and wastewater treatment plants are not all managed in the same way: they are either managed or delegated (***). Public operators are managed by public authorities, while private operators are managed by delegation
The breakdown shows a preference for management under a management structure ...
3.3 Number, number of employees and territorial distribution of private operators in the sector
Nombre d'entreprises
Le nombre d’entreprises de la filière a globalement augmenté entre **** et ****, passant de **** à ****. Cette hausse est largement due à la filière du traitement des eaux usées, qui a vu son nombre d’entreprises passer de *** à ****, alors que la filière de captage et distribution d’eau ...
3.4 Financing water consumption and business investment
Breakdown of funding
This sector is extremely supported by the state. As a result, funding for the sector relies heavily on economic inputs from communities and the government
Breakdown of funding for wastewater management services France, ****, % of total expenditure Source: ****
Households and companies are therefore responsible for the major part of ...
3.5 The main market players
The market is structured between a few players who operate in the sector in a monopolistic situation. Among the private players: Veolia, Suez and Saur alone supply water to nearly **% of the French population.
Breakdown of drinking water services by operators France, ****, as % of population served Source: ****
For water treatment, the ...
4 Analysis of the offer
4.1 The different types of water treatment
Different types of processes are used to treat water. These processes can be grouped into four categories: physical processes, chemical processes, physical-chemical processes and biological processes.
Physical processes :
Screening: the water passes through mesh screens to remove any detritus that may be present Simple settling: heavy particles settle to the bottom ...
4.2 Le prix des services d'eau potable et d'assainissement collectif
La facture d'eau moyenne en France en **** est estimée à ***.* €/an, soit **.* €/mois. La facture d'eau comprend à la fois un coût d'eau potable et un coût d'assainissement collectif et se répartit en * composantes : une part fixe et une part variable. La part fixe est indépendante du volume ...
4.3 Réduction de l'empreinte écologique et de l'utilisation des ressources
Véolia s'engage à recycler **% de l'eau sur ces usines d'eau potables d'ici à **** et **% de l'eau usée sur ces usines d'assainissement. En outre, Véolia se donne pour objectif de diminuer de **% ces fuites. Tous ces objectifs lui permettraient de réduire de **% ces prélèvements d'eaux d'ici ** ans. Enfin, ...
5 Regulation
5.1 Regulations
Mandatory security perimeter around catchment sites
Each catchment in France must have a PPC (***). It defines the limit of the space reserved by regulation around a catchment, under the advice of a certified hydrogeologist
This measure is supplemented by the **** Water Law in the context of environmentally constrained areas (***). The areas ...
5.2 The need to invest calls for a rethink of regulation
Only *.**% of the network is renewed each year, so it would take *** years to renew the entire network. The ****-**** edition of Les Assises de l'eau ****-**** recognized this need for renewal, and also stated that this need would increase considerably in the coming years. A study UIE "water issues" * billion ...
6 Positioning of the players
6.1 Segmentation
- Suez Groupe
- Saur
- Sogedo
- SCP– Société du Canal de Provence
- Agur (Groupe Etchart)
- BRL
- RWE - Thames Water
- BWT
- Wel Enterprise
- BIO UV Group
- Véolia Groupe
- Azuvia
- Valgo
- NKE Groupe
- Aquatech Innovation
- SIAAP Syndicat interdépartemental pour l'Assainissement de l'Agglomération Parisienne
- Diamidex
- KF Unternehmenst Group
- Dupont De Nemours France
- UV Germi
- EMO France
- BE WTR
- Chemdoc Water rechnologies
List of charts presented in this market study
- Water treatment market value
- Chiffre d'affaires de la collecte et du traitement de l'eau
- Évolution de l'usage de l'eau prélevée
- Consommation d'eau en France par usage
- Évolution de l'usage de l'eau prélevée (hors refroidissement des centrales)
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Latest news
Suez breaks into the Polish biogas market - 19/07/2024
- - Suez acquires 51% of ARA Cursus.
- - 24.5% stake in ARA taken by Eiffel Gaz Vert.
- - The Bourgogne group has owned 24.5% since 2021.
- - Number of ARA agricultural biogas projects: 9 projects, including 1 in operation and 8 scheduled to start up in 2024.
- - Production capacity per project: Approx. 1 MW of renewable electrical energy.
- - Planned investment for development in Poland: Around €70 million.
- - Suez biogas production in 2023: More than 2000 GWh.
- - Suez biomethane production in 2023: 382 GWh.
- - Suez has been present in Poland for almost 50 years with subsidiaries in water and wastewater management.
- - Polish support framework for biogas: Guaranteed tariff for 15 years from 2023.
UV Germi: a specialist in water treatment for the Olympic Games - 01/06/2024
- - UV Germi has sales of 8 million euros and 48 employees.
- - UV Germi sold 100,000 euros worth of equipment for the Olympic Aquatic Center (CAO) in Saint-Denis.
- - The total cost of the CAO project is 350 million euros.
- - UV Germi's UV-C dechloramination technology is already deployed in 3,000 of the approximately 5,000 public indoor swimming pools in France.
- - The price of heated and chlorinated water per cubic meter has doubled in three years, from 7 to 15 euros.
- - The dechloramination market accounts for 15% of UV Germi's revenues.
Battery recycling: Suez hopes to supply China's Envision gigafactory in Douai - 08/05/2024
- Creation of France's first zero-emission battery industrial park.
- Construction of a battery gigafactory with a capacity of 9 gigawatt-hours, representing an investment of 2 billion euros and the creation of 2,500 jobs by 2030.
- In partnership with Eramet, Suez will develop a complex to recycle batteries and extract essential metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel.
- The battery recycling plant should be operational by 2027.
- Suez sales in China: one billion euros.
- Suez workforce: 40,000 people in 40 countries.
- Global Suez sales in 2023: 9 billion euros.
Veolia's plan for growth in energy - 13/01/2024
- The group already generates a quarter of its sales (just over 10 billion out of almost 43 billion euros in 2022) from the operation of heating networks, the recovery of energy from waste and wastewater, and energy-related services.
- The Group, which has positioned itself in the field of "decarbonizing local energy", estimates that it will be worth 500 billion euros in Europe by 2030
- Services related to energy efficiency in buildings and industry could represent a market worth 200 billion euros by 2030
- Green energy supply and heating/cooling networks could be worth 150 billion euros by 2030.
- The operation of heating networks is Veolia's main energy business (revenues of 5.9 billion euros in 2022),
- Veolia operates more than 500 networks.
Veolia to sell its engineering subsidiary SADE - 27/11/2023
- SADE's annual sales are expected to reach around 1.1 billion euros in 2022.
- SADE employs around 6900 people.
Citeo and Suez start up France's second plastic packaging sorting facility - 28/10/2023
- The Suez group and Citeo have invested 19 million euros in the conversion of a plastic packaging sorting platform.
- 15 million euros were injected by Citeo and 4 million by the Suez group
- The extension of sorting rules to all household packaging has been mandatory in France since January 1, 2023.
- The over-sorting center in Epinal is designed to sort four main types of plastic: colored PET, opaque PET, PET trays and polystyrene.
- 25,000 tonnes of plastic, mainly from the eastern part of France, are expected to be over-sorted each year in Epinal.
- The Epinal site is the second over-sorting center to be built in France, after Bourgogne Recyclage and before Environnement Massif Central, which is due to open in mid-2024.
- The recycled plastics leaving the Epinal center will be recycled in France or in neighboring countries.
- Starting in 2025, Carbios will process multilayer PET trays at its future Longlaville plant.
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