Lime and Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation depends on lime.

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

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 5 of 5 · Lime → Water and sanitation

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

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

Enterprise types that depend on it:

• Water utilities (municipal boards and private operators): softening and pH (criticality 5 of 5)
• Water-treatment chemical suppliers: pH correction and softening (criticality 3 of 5)
• Septic tank emptying and faecal sludge treatment operators: sludge stabilisation (criticality 2 of 5)

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