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Software and IT services and Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation buys from Software and IT services; water and sanitation depends on software and IT services.

Software and IT services (industry) and Water and sanitation (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹2.1 per ₹100 · Water and sanitation buys from Software and IT services

Water and sanitation buys goods or services from Software and IT services; counted through every round of supply, ₹2.1 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹2.1 of every ₹100 of Water and sanitation output, all rounds
  • ₹0.9 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 5 of 5 · Software and IT services → Water and sanitation

3 of the enterprise types in Water and sanitation depend on software and IT services.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Water utilities (municipal boards and private operators): billing and network management (criticality 5 of 5)
  • Water EPC and design-build-operate contractors: SCADA and design software (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Smart-metering and digital-water vendors: analytics (criticality 2 of 5)

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