# 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.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/software-and-it-services-and-water-and-sanitation/

[Software and IT services](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/software_it/) (industry) and [Water and sanitation](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/water_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.