JenaWasser

Name

JenaWasser

Legal name

Zweckverband JenaWasser

Website

https://jenawasser.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Water and Wastewater Utility Services

NAICS

Water, Sewage and Other Systems (2213), Water Supply and Irrigation Systems (221310), Sewage Treatment Facilities (22132)

SIC

Water Supply (4941), Electric, Gas & Sanitary Services (4900)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEUANABAD

Disinfection & Oxidation (Chlorine/Chloramine, UV, Ozone, AOP)

Energy, Utilities & Environment/Water & Wastewater Utilities/Water Treatment (Potable)

SECONDARYEUANADAC

Advanced/Nutrient Removal (BNR/ENR: N, P)

Energy, Utilities & Environment/Water & Wastewater Utilities/Wastewater Treatment & Reuse (Municipal/Industrial)

Keywords

• Drinking water supply
• Wastewater treatment
• Municipal water utility
• Wastewater disposal services
• Stormwater management

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

JenaWasser is a public-law municipal water utility that supplies drinking water to approximately 130,000 residents and provides wastewater disposal for approximately 156,000 residents across 29 member municipalities in Jena, Saale-Holzland-Kreis, and Weimarer Land. Its core offerings are drinking water supply (Trinkwasserversorgung) and wastewater disposal (Abwasserentsorgung), supported by ancillary services such as stormwater/rainwater management, small wastewater treatment plant management (Grundstückskläranlagen), new property connections, fecal sludge removal, and tap-water promotion (Wasser-Quartier).

Product overview

JenaWasser (Zweckverband JenaWasser) is a public utility association providing drinking water supply and wastewater disposal services across 29 municipalities in Jena, the Saale-Holzland-Kreis, and the Weimarer Land regions in Thuringia, Germany. The organization operates as a non-profit public law corporation serving approximately 130,000 people with drinking water and 156,000 people with wastewater services. The core offerings consist of Trinkwasserversorgung (drinking water supply) and Abwasserentsorgung (wastewater disposal), supported by educational initiatives like Wasser-Quartier for tap water promotion, AQUA-AGENTEN for elementary school education, and KITA-Bildung for kindergarten programs. Additional services include Grundstückskläranlagen (small wastewater treatment plant management) and comprehensive online customer services. JenaWasser closes water cycles from sustainable raw water extraction and treatment through reliable disposal and environmentally-friendly wastewater treatment to return water to public waters.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Covers approximately 156,000 people in service area
• +1 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Hamburg Wasser: Hamburg's municipal water and wastewater utility, one of Germany's largest. Direct functional peer — same regulated water supply + wastewater mandate, public-law structure — though operating in a major port-city geography versus JenaWasser's mid-sized Thuringian region.
• Gelsenwasser AG: Municipal water utility holding serving parts of NRW, Lower Saxony, and beyond. Publicly owned by municipal shareholders, it operates the same integrated water supply and wastewater disposal business model as JenaWasser but across multiple federal states and at much larger scale.
• SWM Stadtwerke München: Munich's municipal utility operating drinking water supply (Münchner Wasser) and wastewater services under a similar non-profit, public-law utility structure. Compares to JenaWasser in regulatory model and integrated water/wastewater mandate, but for a far larger metropolitan population.
• DREWAG GmbH (Dresdner Stadtwerke): Dresden's municipal multi-utility providing water, wastewater, energy, and telecommunications. Comparable to JenaWasser as an eastern-German municipal utility with statutory water duties, though with broader energy product scope and larger urban catchment.
• Berliner Wasserbetriebe (BWB): Germany's largest municipal water and wastewater utility, serving ~3.6 million Berlin residents. Compares to JenaWasser as a publicly structured drinking-water + wastewater operator with strong regulatory franchise, but at vastly greater scale and broader service geography.
• KWL Kommunale Wasserwerke Leipzig GmbH: Leipzig's municipal drinking water utility, owned by the city. Same public-sector water-supply mandate and Eastern-German operating context as JenaWasser; comparable infrastructure-renewal profile, though Leipzig's scale and population are multiples of Jena's.

Regional players

• SWE Stadtwerke Erfurt GmbH: Erfurt's municipal multi-utility (Thuringia's capital), operating energy, water, and wastewater. Direct regional peer within Thuringia, sharing regulatory regime (Landesverwaltungsamt oversight) and serving a similarly sized catchment, though with a broader multi-utility mandate.
• Wasserverband Eifel-Rur: Large Wasser- und Bodenverband in North Rhine-Westphalia managing water resources, water supply, and wastewater across multiple municipalities. A close institutional peer to JenaWasser in the Zweckverband/Verband structure, though operating in western Germany rather than Thuringia.

Direct peers

• Stadtwerke Jena Gruppe: Stadtwerke Jena is the technical and commercial operating partner for JenaWasser since 2018, handling billing, maintenance, emergency response, and grid operations. It is the closest operational peer, operating adjacent energy, gas, water, and telecom networks in the same service region.

Others

• TEAG Thüringer Energie AG: Thüringer Energie is the Thuringian state energy utility, distinct from but regionally adjacent to JenaWasser. It is an ecosystem partner rather than a direct competitor — relevant as a Thuringian public-sector utility counterpart for benchmarking, joint infrastructure planning, and energy-supply procurement (relevant to JenaWasser's ISO 50001 energy management).

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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