Volume of potential potable water provided over the lifetimes of all products sold during the reporting period.
Organizations should footnote all assumptions used.
This metric is intended to capture the total potential lifetime potable water produced or provided by products sold during the reporting period. For example, an organization that sells home water pumps that provide homeowners with drinking water should report the total potable water the pump can deliver over its expected lifetime.
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.
When multiplying the potable water provision capacity of each product sold by Units/Volume Sold: Total (PI1263), organizations should, under Units/Volume Sold: Total (PI1263), use the absolute number of product units sold rather than the volume of potable water provided by the product.
This is a submetric of Water Provision Capacity of Products Sold: Total (PD2020), which has 0 other related submetrics.
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
Immaterial change. Minor revisions to definition and usage guidance for clarity.
January 2020 - IRIS v5.1 Released
No change.
May 2019 - IRIS v5.0 Released
No change.
March 2016 - IRIS v4.0 Released
Immaterial change. Metric name, definition language, and calculation language modified to improve accuracy.
March 2014 - IRIS v3.0 Released
New metric. Water Production Capacity of Products Sold: Potable (PD1403) was developed via the IRIS Taxonomy Group.
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