# Building materials and Water and sanitation

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

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/building-materials-and-water-and-sanitation/

[Building materials](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/building_materials/) (industry) and [Water and sanitation](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/water_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.