Pharmaceuticals and Water and sanitation

Pharmaceuticals buys from Water and sanitation; pharmaceuticals depends on water and sanitation.

Pharmaceuticals (industry) and Water and sanitation (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹1 per ₹100 · Pharmaceuticals buys from Water and sanitation

Pharmaceuticals buys goods or services from Water and sanitation; counted through every round of supply, ₹1 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

• ₹1 of every ₹100 of Pharmaceuticals output, all rounds
• ₹0.4 bought directly

2. Industry input

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

4 of the enterprise types in Pharmaceuticals depend on water and sanitation.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

• Key starting material and intermediate makers: effluent treatment is a licence condition (criticality 5 of 5)
• API manufacturers and CDMOs: purified water and effluent (criticality 4 of 5)
• Biologics and vaccine manufacturers: water for injection (criticality 4 of 5)
• Finished-dose formulators (branded and generic): purified water (criticality 3 of 5)

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