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Textiles and leather and Water and sanitation

Textiles and leather buys from Water and sanitation; textiles and leather depends on water and sanitation.

Textiles and leather (industry) and Water and sanitation (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.9 per ₹100 · Textiles and leather buys from Water and sanitation

Textiles and leather buys goods or services from Water and sanitation; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.9 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.9 of every ₹100 of Textiles and leather output, all rounds
  • ₹0.3 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Water and sanitation → Textiles and leather

3 of the enterprise types in Textiles and leather depend on water and sanitation.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Cotton growers and ginners: canal and groundwater irrigation supply (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Dyeing, printing and finishing houses: water supply and common effluent treatment plants (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Tanneries and leather finishers: common effluent treatment plants (criticality 3 of 5)

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