Sachsen Wasser GmbH

Name

Sachsen Wasser GmbH

Legal name

Sachsen Wasser GmbH

Website

https://sachsenwasser.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Water Utility Consulting Services

NAICS

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Water, Sewage and Other Systems (2213)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) & Due Diligence (BPAHAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Water, Wastewater & Hydraulics Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAD)

Keywords

• Water utility consulting
• Wastewater management services
• Operations maintenance support
• Utility capacity building
• Non-revenue water reduction

Headquarters

HQ city

Leipzig, SN

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Advisory services including institutional strengthening of utilities, financial advisory, tariff support, commercial process improvement, energy management, information systems implementation, and water loss reduction. Delivered through project-based engagements with water utilities and government organizations.
2. Operations & Maintenance Support: Ongoing operational support for water and wastewater facilities including local staff training, O&M plan development, maintenance strategies, and operating manuals. Long-term support contracts with utility operators.
3. Training and Capacity Building: Customized training programs for water utility management conducted at Leipzig facilities and on-site at client locations. Topics include organizational, financial, commercial, and technical aspects for management, administrative, and operational staff.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Sachsen Wasser GmbH delivers integrated consulting, operations and maintenance (O&M) support, and training services to water and wastewater utilities and public-sector water organizations worldwide. Its services span the full utility value chain — from drinking water production to wastewater disposal — covering institutional strengthening, financial and tariff advisory, commercial process improvement, energy management, information systems, non-revenue water reduction, O&M planning, and tailor-made capacity building delivered in Leipzig and on-site.

Product overview

Sachsen Wasser GmbH is a specialized consulting company offering integrated water supply and sanitation services. The portfolio consists of three core service pillars: Consulting Services (institutional strengthening, financial advisory, energy management, water loss reduction), Operations & Maintenance (O&M) Support (facility operation, staff training, maintenance strategies), and Training/Capacity Building. These are supported by specialized service modules including Commercial Strengthening, Financial Advisory, Institutional Support, NRW Reduction, GIS Database Services, Energy Management, and Project Development/Feasibility Studies. The company operates globally through regional offices and projects across South-Eastern Europe, Central/East Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Consulting Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 160 national and international project assignments successfully completed
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Fichtner GroupcoreOthers · 1 April 2026Sachsen Wasser GmbH (SaWa) became a member of the Fichtner Group in April 2026. Fichtner Group employs approximately 2,300 people worldwide through its subsidiaries and affiliated companies. The partnership extends SaWa's core competence with additional expertise in technical urban water management and expands multidisciplinary consulting services with further technical and non-technical expertise, enabling interdisciplinary project execution entirely in-house.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• GFA Consulting Group: GFA Consulting Group is a Hamburg-based consultancy implementing development projects on behalf of German and international donors, with strong water/sanitation and utility-reform practice — the closest functional peer to SaWa's institutional-strengthening and capacity-building mandate.
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ): GIZ is Germany's federal development agency that commissions and delivers water-sector reform programs worldwide; a direct peer because SaWa regularly serves as a GIZ-aligned contractor for water utility institutional development and capacity building.

Broad incumbents

• Ramboll: Ramboll is a global engineering, architecture and consultancy firm with a large Water practice serving utilities on asset management, NRW reduction, and climate adaptation — a broader incumbent that competes for similar utility-modernization mandates.
• WSP Global: WSP is a global professional services firm with a dedicated Water and Environment practice advising utilities on operations, asset management, and infrastructure — a broad incumbent competing for the same multilateral-funded utility mandates.
• Mott MacDonald: Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management and development consultancy with a sizeable Water utility practice that delivers institutional reform and capacity-building services — directly comparable at the larger, multinational end of the same market.
• Arup: Arup is a global engineering and design consultancy with a Water practice serving utilities on resilience, asset management and master planning — a broader incumbent offering overlapping advisory services.
• KfW Development Bank: KfW Entwicklungsbank funds water supply and sanitation infrastructure projects in developing countries and engages consulting firms like SaWa for feasibility, supervision, and institutional support — overlapping as both a likely client and a comparable multilateral-finance actor.
• Fichtner Group: Fichtner Group is SaWa's parent company since April 2026 and a diversified engineering and consulting conglomerate with ~2,300 employees; directly comparable as the broader consulting/engineering platform that now houses SaWa's water-utility advisory specialty.

Others

• International Water Association (IWA): IWA is the global membership network for water professionals and a publisher of utility benchmarking and best-practice frameworks — an ecosystem peer whose standards and training programs intersect with SaWa's capacity-building services.
• Kommunale Wasserwerke Leipzig GmbH: KWL is the founding parent of SaWa and one of Germany's largest municipal water/wastewater utilities — a former-owner and ongoing reference/credibility anchor whose operational practices underpin SaWa's practitioner-led value proposition.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/sachsen-wasser-gmbh

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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