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Building materials and Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation buys from Building materials; water and sanitation depends on building materials.

Building materials (industry) and Water and sanitation (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹1.9 per ₹100 · Water and sanitation buys from Building materials

Water and sanitation buys goods or services from Building materials; counted through every round of supply, ₹1.9 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹1.9 of every ₹100 of Water and sanitation output, all rounds
  • ₹0.6 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Building materials → Water and sanitation

1 of the enterprise types in Water and sanitation depend on building materials.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Water EPC and design-build-operate contractors: concrete and masonry (criticality 3 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.