Water CEOs, 1996–2026: the research archive

No “trust me, bro” metrics. Here is everything behind my video on what gets water CEOs fired: 659 CEO tenures at 110 water businesses since 1996, coded one by one, with the evidence and the sources. Grab it, recompute it, and tell me if you get to my results.

What’s in the box

• The table: one row per CEO tenure, with background, how it ended, the executive team, ownership, share returns, revenue and margin, and pay. CSV and Excel.
• The financials behind the before/after table, with the source and the quoted line for every figure.
• The team study: who sat on each CEO’s executive committee, who was inherited, hired or promoted, and when they left.
• Research notes for each of the 110 companies, and 5,330 source links.
• The method, and a codebook for every column.

Not in the box: my charts. Make your own.

Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0. Use it, share it, adapt it, and credit me. Commercial use? Ask me first. Version 1, November 2026, a 1.9 MB zip.