Volume of potable water provided and delivered to offtaker(s) during the reporting period.
Water Provided for Sale: Potable (PI8043)
- Reporting Format Unit of Measure (PD1602)
- Metric Type Submetric
- Metric Level Product/Service
- IRIS Metric Citation IRIS, 2021. Water Provided for Sale: Potable (PI8043). v5.2.
Footnote
Organizations should footnote all assumptions used.
Usage Guidance
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This metric is intended to capture the amount of potable water the organization produced or provided for commercial sale and not water produced for its own consumption. Bulk water production is usually sold to a utility. The buyer or purchaser of this water is termed the offtaker.
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Potable water is safe enough for human consumption or use for domestic purposes, drinking, cooking, and personal hygiene with low risk of immediate or long-term harm.
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Organizations wishing to report product-level potable water production should use Water Provision Capacity of Products Sold: Potable (PD1403) and Water Provision Capacity of Product: Potable (PD6929).
Related metrics
This is a submetric of Water Provided for Sale: Total (PI9468), which has 0 other related submetrics.
Impact Categories & Themes
SDG Goals & Targets
No Poverty
- SDG Target 1.4
Good Health and Well-being
- SDG Target 3.9
Clean Water and Sanitation
- SDG Target 6.1
- SDG Target 6.2
- SDG Target 6.4
Sustainable Cities and Communities
- SDG Target 11.1