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Copper and Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation depends on copper.

Copper (commodity) and Water and sanitation (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Copper → Water and sanitation

2 of the enterprise types in Water and sanitation depend on copper; for the most dependent, it rates 3 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 2 enterprise types depend on it
  • 3 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Pump, valve and meter makers: motor windings (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Smart-metering and digital-water vendors: brass meter bodies (criticality 2 of 5)

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