# Copper and Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation depends on copper.

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

[Copper](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/copper/) (commodity) and [Water and sanitation](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/water_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.