Water recycled and reused
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Water recycled and reused is the reporting-period volume of water or wastewater used more than once before it leaves the reporting boundary. Recycled water returns to the same process, while reused water serves another process or facility before discharge.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Single value
- Unit
- Cubic metres (m³)
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Sum under the declared cycle-count policy
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Water and marine resources
- Controlled domain
- Water and marine resources
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Water or wastewater used more than once within the declared own-operations boundary before final discharge, with the metering point, process path, cycle-count rule, and internal-transfer treatment stated.
Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Adopting Disclosurewater-recycled-reused
Revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards
- Publisher
- European Commission / EFRAG
- Edition
- Commission delegated act adopted 3 July 2026; application from 1 January 2027 after Official Journal publication
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- ESRS E3 E3-4 paragraph 16 e (ESRS26_E3-4_05)
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
European Sustainability Reporting Standards
- Publisher
- European Commission
- Edition
- Consolidated text as of 1 January 2025, document version 001.001
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- Annex I, ESRS E3-4, paragraph 28(c) and (e), application requirements AR 29 to AR 30, and Annex II definition of water recycled and reused
- Adopting Disclosureesrs_WaterRecycledAndReused
European Sustainability Reporting Standards
- Publisher
- EFRAG
- Edition
- ESRS Set 1 XBRL Taxonomy dated 22 December 2023
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- esrs-set1-2023:esrs_WaterRecycledAndReused
- Adopting DisclosureFA.A2.4
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Recommended
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- Page 76, Section 3.3, Table 12
- Adopting Disclosure9dae7ede0fcc0eb4f523
TNFD Recommendations
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- September 2023
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- Page 91, metric A3.2
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Cubic metres (m³)
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
Unit meaning: One cubic metre equals 1,000 litres of volume.
Published dimensions
- Volume
- Site
- Process
- Recycled or reused
Calculation method
Formula information
- Status
- Specified
- Formula type
- Sum
Formula
T = ΣqᵢSum only non-overlapping qualifying observations that use compatible units, boundaries, periods, classifications, and method editions.
Variables
| Symbol | Variable | Definition | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
qᵢ | qualifying observation | Each compatible observation within the qualifying population and boundary defined for Water recycled and reused. | m³ |
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.
Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 15 August 2026
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772 supplementing Directive 2013/34/EU as regards sustainability reporting standards
- Publisher
- European Commission
- Edition
- Consolidated text as of 1 January 2025, document version 001.001
- Locator
- Annex I, ESRS E3-4, paragraph 28(c) and (e), application requirements AR 29 to AR 30, and Annex II definition of water recycled and reused
Supports: Official publisher reference linked specifically to the Sustopedia metric “Water recycled and reused”; interpret it with the source-edition basis and limitations shown on this page.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Current in-force ESRS E3 consolidated as of 1 January 2025; the adopted 2026 amendment is compatibility context only.
- Metering point and cycle-count convention
- Included processes, sites and reporting boundary
- Recycled-versus-reused classification
- Internal-transfer and treatment-state policy
- Measurement, extrapolation or estimation basis
Record-specific limitations
- The result depends on the declared metering point and whether repeated cycles are counted once or more than once.
- Internal transfers must be reconciled so the same physical volume is not counted repeatedly across facilities.
- This volume is not a claim about avoided withdrawal and must not be presented as a percentage under this metric identity.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.