Show 02 of 07 · Who uses the water
The Municipal and Utility Water Show
Where the country's biggest water budget is actually spent.
A dedicated show inside EAW Global Aqua Expo 2027, with its own hall, its own conference track and its own buyer campaign. Hyderabad, January 2027. New Delhi, May 2027.
India is spending more on drinking water in this decade than at any point in its history, and almost none of it is being decided at a general environment show.
This show exists because a municipal engineer buys nothing the way anybody else on the floor does. They buy against a tender, a mission target and a state budget cycle, and they specify years before they purchase.
Category and buyer counts are specific to EAW MUNICIPAL. The visitor figure is the 2026 platform total across all halls, from the final registration database. Per-show visitor figures begin with the 2027 editions, when each show has its own badge stream.
Three things that decide this floor
Approved for Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0 in March 2026, with the focus moving from building assets to running them
The shift to service delivery turns metering, water quality, non revenue water and long term operations into procurement lines
Utility procurement is written into DPRs and mission targets long before it reaches a tender portal, which is why suppliers meet engineers early or not at all
EAW MUNICIPAL in one paragraph
Your customer writes a specification years before a tender appears. This show puts you in front of municipal commissioners, Jal Board engineers and mission directors at the point where that specification is still being written, not after it has closed.
The exhibitor profile
These are the categories a visitor ticks when they say what they are sourcing. Matching runs code to code, so you are not relying on somebody typing the same words you did.
- MUN-01
Drinking water treatment plants and packaged treatment systems - MUN-02
Water distribution network design, laying and rehabilitation - MUN-03
Service reservoirs, elevated storage and pumping station civil works - MUN-04
Chlorination and UV disinfection systems for water supply - MUN-05
Community, tribal and rural drinking water supply schemes - MUN-06
Borewell, groundwater recharge and rainwater harvesting - MUN-07
Desalination and alternative source water schemes - MUN-08
Water supply DPR, design and project management consultancy - MUN-09
Utility operations, billing reform and service delivery contracts - MUN-10
Trenchless laying, pipe rehabilitation and network repair
The visitor profile
Invitation campaigns run per show. Nobody on this list receives a generic water exhibition email.
Buyers invited to this show
- Municipal commissioners and city engineers
- Jal Board and water utility officers
- Jal Jeevan Mission and state mission directors
- Urban local bodies and panchayat engineers
- Smart city special purpose vehicles
- Dealers, distributors and channel partners
- Plumbers, contractors and installers
- Builders, developers and township infrastructure teams
- State water and public health engineering departments
- Consultants, design institutes and DPR preparers
What a stand here includes
- Space in the one show your buyer actually attends
- Free cross listing in every other show where your categories appear
- The full gate on one shared visitor badge
- Matchmaking against declared sourcing lists, not guesswork
- Hosted buyer list published 60 days before the show, by company and function
- Post show lead report within 10 working days, ready for your CRM
- Both cities on one contract if you take Hyderabad and Delhi together
Which edition this show belongs in
Both cities run this show. They do not run it at the same weight. Book the one your buyer walks, or take both on one contract.
Hyderabad Strong
Southern boards, HMWSSB, BWSSB, CMWSSB and GVMC.
29 to 31 January 2027 · HITEX Exhibition Centre
North India, policy and utilities · 20–22 May 2027New Delhi Lead
National missions, ministries and the largest utility audience in the country.
20 to 22 May 2027 · Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan
Scope, procurement and the conference track
| Not in this show | Domestic purifiers and the dealer trade, which sit in DOMESTIC. Meters, leak detection and monitoring, which sit in DIGITAL. Pumps, pipes and valves as components, which sit in TECHNOLOGY. |
|---|---|
| Live procurement | Jal Jeevan Mission service delivery contracts, AMRUT network rehabilitation, smart metering roll outs, 24x7 supply pilots, rural drinking water schemes and state NRW reduction programmes. |
| Conference track | Municipal Water Forum. Service delivery under JJM 2.0, non revenue water, 24x7 supply, tariff and metering, rural schemes. |
| Across both cities | Hyderabad, January 2027. Strong. Southern boards, HMWSSB, BWSSB, CMWSSB and GVMC. Delhi, May 2027. Lead. National missions, ministries and the largest utility audience in the country. |
Reserve space in EAW MUNICIPAL
Tell us your categories and we will send the floor plan, the rate card and the two city package for Hyderabad and Delhi together.