Companies likely to buy water treatment equipment in North America: building or expanding in water and wastewater, food and beverage, pharma and life sciences, chemicals and plastics, semiconductors and electronics, power and energy, metals and mining, batteries and evs, data centers, oil and gas, customers of recent contracts in those markets, and acquired companies in them, over the last 18 months. Ranked by how recent, how large and how far along each signal is; companies in water treatment equipment themselves are left out as competitors.