# Telecommunications and Water and sanitation

Water and sanitation buys from Telecommunications; water and sanitation depends on telecommunications.

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[Telecommunications](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/telecom/) (industry) and [Water and sanitation](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/water_sanitation/) (industry): 2 relationships.

## How they are linked

### 1. Buys from

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

Water and sanitation buys goods or services from Telecommunications; 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 Water and sanitation output, all rounds
- **₹0.4** bought directly

### 2. Industry input

*Physical flow · Criticality 2 of 5 · Telecommunications → Water and sanitation*

1 of the enterprise types in Water and sanitation depend on telecommunications.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

- Smart-metering and digital-water vendors: meter data networks (criticality 2 of 5)

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