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Water & wastewater utilities in France_

As of 4 November 2026, 272 water & wastewater utilities companies are based in France; 12 are hiring right now and Paris has the most.

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

Companies
272
Hiring now
12 · 9 new in 30 d
Largest niche
Water supply utilities · 207
Top city
Paris · 6
Parent market
Utilities & infrastructure · 2,985
272water & wastewater utilities companies in France
12hiring today
9opened a role in the last 30 days
12niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Water & wastewater utilities in France, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
Water supply utilities
20776%
Water & utility authorities
19070%
Wastewater & sewerage utilities
6925%
Other water & wastewater utilities
238%
Municipal & commercial waste collection
62%
Wastewater engineering
41%
Hazardous waste management
31%
Waste treatment & disposal facilities
21%
Gas grid operators
10%
Hydropower operators
10%
Oil & gas exploration production
10%
Other waste management & recycling
10%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
41 · 0
2-10 employees
120 · 0
11-50 employees
71 · 1
51-200 employees
27 · 5
201-500 employees
10 · 4
501-1000 employees
1 · 1
1001-5000 employees
2 · 1
By city
companiesshare
Paris
62%
Villeneuve-de-Rivière
52%
Roubaix
31%
Auch
21%
Biganos
21%
Châteaurenard
21%
Clermont-Ferrand
21%
Colmar
21%
Nice
21%
Sallanches
21%
Toulouse
21%
Valence
21%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest water & wastewater utilities companies in France

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

272 water & wastewater utilities companies in France.

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04 — What they run

The stack of water & wastewater utilities in France

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

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272 water & wastewater utilities companies are based in France; 12 are hiring right now and Paris has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/utilities_infrastructure/france/water_and_wastewater_utilities)
How we know

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  • 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 France: questions

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

272 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 supply utilities, water & utility authorities, wastewater & sewerage utilities. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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