The owners of roughly two out of every three large municipal water and wastewater systems in the United States intend to contract with design or construction firms for security-related projects, according to a recently released survey of utilities. However, design firms hoping to augment business opportunities by focusing on water and wastewater security will face increasingly tight competition amid a market that may prove to be of relatively short duration. The 2003-2006 Municipal Water & Wastewater Market for Design & Construction Firms was released in June by the management consulting and publishing company ZweigWhite, of Natick, Massachusetts. The firm sent questionnaires to the operators of 133 municipal water and wastewater systems serving the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Although only 44 systems responded, "the information they provided was analyzed and compared favorably against national trends, indicating that the data [are] of good quality," according to a summary of the report provided by ZweigWhite.
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