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Water & wastewater utilities in Brazil_

As of 4 November 2026, 218 water & wastewater utilities companies are based in Brazil; 3 are hiring right now and São Paulo has the most.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies
218
Hiring now
3 · 3 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Water & utility authorities · 169
Top city
São Paulo · 8
Parent market
Utilities & infrastructure · 10,916
218water & wastewater utilities companies in Brazil
3hiring today
3opened a role in the last 30 days
11niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Water & wastewater utilities in Brazil, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Water & utility authorities
16978%
Water supply utilities
11151%
Wastewater & sewerage utilities
5123%
Municipal & commercial waste collection
94%
Wastewater engineering
73%
Hazardous waste management
63%
Other water & wastewater utilities
31%
Energy retail suppliers
21%
Other waste management & recycling
21%
Waste treatment & disposal facilities
21%
Renewable energy project developers
10%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
9 · 0
2-10 employees
134 · 0
11-50 employees
34 · 0
51-200 employees
16 · 0
201-500 employees
14 · 1
501-1000 employees
5 · 1
1001-5000 employees
2 · 0
5001-10000 employees
2 · 0
10,001+ employees
2 · 1
By city
companiesshare
São Paulo
84%
Belém
63%
San Ildefonso Tultepec
63%
San José
52%
Baganga
42%
Santa María del Río
31%
Boa Vista
21%
Catarina
21%
Duque de Caxias
21%
Horizonte
21%
Itajaí
21%
Paraiso
21%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest water & wastewater utilities companies in Brazil

The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

218 water & wastewater utilities companies in Brazil.

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04 — What they run

The stack of water & wastewater utilities in Brazil

From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.

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218 water & wastewater utilities companies are based in Brazil; 3 are hiring right now and São Paulo has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/utilities_infrastructure/brazil/water_and_wastewater_utilities)
How we know

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Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
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Water & wastewater utilities in Brazil: questions

How many water & wastewater utilities companies are there in Brazil?

218 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Utilities & infrastructure → Water & wastewater utilities → leaf niches such as water & utility authorities, water supply utilities, wastewater & sewerage utilities. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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