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Private Water Service Providers Quick Facts
- Nearly 73 million Americans receive water service from a privately owned water utility or a municipal utility operating under a public-private partnership. 1
Privately Owned Drinking Water Utilities
- Private water companies own about 16% of the nation’s community water systems.2
- Private Water Systems produce 4.6 billion gallons of water a day, or about 1.7 trillion gallons per year.3
- Private water utilities maintain 100,000 miles of distribution mains (water pipes) to serve their customers.4
- The private drinking water business is a $4.3 billion per year business.5
- Twelve Water Utility Companies are publicly traded:
- American Water
- American States Water Company
- Aqua America
- Artesian Resources Corp.
- BIW LTD.
- California Water Service Group
- Connecticut Water Service, Inc
- Middlesex Water Co.
- Pennichuck Corp.
- SJW Corp.
- Southwest Water Co.
- York Water Co.
Privately Owned Wastewater Utilities
- There are about 4,200 privately owned wastewater facilities (POTWs) in the U.S..6
- 20% of all wastewater utilities (POTWs) in the U.S. are privately owned.7
- About 3% of Americans get wastewater service from private wastewater utilities.8
Water and Wastewater Management Contracts
- There are more than 2,000 drinking water and wastewater facilities that are operated in public-private partnership contract arrangements.9
- These contracts regularly get renewed at better than a 93 percent renewal rate.10
- Annually, it is a $1.5 billion industry.11
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