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Lithium and Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation depends on lithium.

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

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 2 of 5 · Lithium → Water and sanitation

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

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

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Smart-metering and digital-water vendors: long-life meter batteries (criticality 2 of 5)

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