Volume of water treated to become potable over the lifetime of a product or system operated according to planned capacity.
Organizations should footnote all assumptions used, as well as details on the type of water treated (e.g., wastewater).
This metric is intended to capture the amount of water that could be treated to become potable by a product during its lifetime.
Treating water aims to improve water’s quality to make it more acceptable for an end-use, such as drinking, industry, or safe return to the environment, by removing or reducing existing water contaminants.
This is a submetric of Water Treatment Capacity of Product: Total (PD8586), 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
New metric. Water Treatment Capacity of Product: Potable (PD5087) was developed via the IRIS Taxonomy Group.
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