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FEM 2024 Water and Waste Calculations

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Water Data

Data about production and domestic water use is collected in the Water section of FEM separated by facility type.

Domestic water use is either reported as a part of production use, in the case that a facility cannot separate the water usage, or separately.

You can determine whether a facility is reporting water values split between domestic and production or combined by looking at the ref_id wattrackdomprodsep an answer of No means the facility is reporting combined (row 3 in the table below) and Yes means separated (rows 1 and 2 in the table below). Because a facility will never report using both methods they may safely be summed without risk of double counting.

Raw water use is reported in the follow ref_ids:

Scope Usage Unit of Measure
Domestic wattrackdom[1]quant wattrackdom[1]unit
Production wattrack[1]prod[2]quant wattrack[1]prod[2]unit
Domestic & Production wattrack[1]all[2]quant wattrack[1]all[2]unit

Where the wildcards [1] and [2] represent the water source and facility type which may be any of the following values:

Index Kind Reference Value
1 Water Source watsourcesurface Surface Water
1 Water Source watsourceground Groundwater
1 Water Source watsourcemunicipalblue Municipal Blue Water
1 Water Source watsourcemunicipalunk Municipal Water (Origin Unknown)
1 Water Source watsourcesea Brackish surface water/seawater
1 Water Source watsourcecond Condensate from External Steam Source
1 Water Source watsourcerain Rainwater
1 Water Source watsourcemunicipalgrey Municipal Grey Water
1 Water Source watsourcerecycle Recycled Water
1 Water Source watsourcereuse Reuse Water
1 Water Source watsourcewaste Treated Wastewater
1 Water Source watsourcewasteinternal Untreated Wastewater (treated internally)
2 Facility Type finalProductAssembly Finished Product Assembler
2 Facility Type finishedProductProcessing Finished Product Processing (Product Printing, Product Painting, Embroidery & Embellishments, Buffing & Polishing, Moulding etc.)
2 Facility Type printingProductDyeingAndLaundering Finished Product Processing (Product Printing, Product Painting, Product Dyeing, Product Laundering and Product Finishing, Embroidery & Embellishments)
2 Facility Type hardComponentTrimProduction Component / Sub-Assembly Manufacturing
2 Facility Type materialProduction Material Production
2 Facility Type rawMaterialProcessing Raw Material Processing
2 Facility Type rawMaterialCollection Raw Material Collection & Bulk Refining

So the raw value for usage of surface in Raw Material Collection & Bulk Refining for production would be found in either the ref_id wattrackwatsourcesurfaceprodrawMaterialCollectionquant or wattrackwatsourcesurfaceallrawMaterialCollectionquant the former if wattrackdomprodsep is Yes the latter if it is No and then combined with domestic water use but never both.

Water Aggregates

[1]total

Total liters of water across all facility types, and domestic usage from the water source represented by the wild card [1]

domestic_total_water_l

Total water use from domestic usage across all sources.

watsourcewithdrawal

Total liters of water across all facility types, and domestic usage from the water sources:

watsourceground
watsourcemunicipalblue
watsourcemunicipalunk

watsourcerecycled

Total liters of water across all facility types, and domestic usage from the water sources:

watsourcemunicipalgrey
watsourcecond
watsourcerecycle
watsourcereuse
watsourcewaste
watsourcewasteinternal

watsourcetotaltotal

Total water use across all sources, facility types, and domestic use.

[2]_water_l

Total liters of water used across all sources for the facility type represented by the wild card [2]

[2]_total_water_l

Total liters of water used across all sources for the facility type represented by the wild card [2]. Includes domestic usage added evenly across each facility type.

[2]_normalized_water_l

Total liters of water used per unit produced across all sources for the facility type represented by the wild card [2]. Includes domestic usage added evenly across each facility type. The unit total and unit of measure can be found in sipfacilityannualprodvolquant[2] and sipfacilityannualprodvolunits[2] respectively.

Waste Data

Data about waste generation is collected in the Waste section of FEM separated by hazardous and non-hazardous waste type. Unlike energy and water it is not reported by facility type.

Raw waste generation is reported in the follow ref_ids:

Scope Usage Unit of Measure
Hazardous wstsourceh[1]quant wstsourceh[1]unit
Non Hazardous wstsourcenh[1]quant wstsourcenh[1]unit

Where the wildcard [1] represents the waste source which may be any of the following values:

Index Waste Stream Reference Value
1 Non-Hazardous textile Textile Waste
1 Non-Hazardous leather Leather Waste
1 Non-Hazardous rubber Rubber Waste
1 Non-Hazardous metal Metal
1 Non-Hazardous plastic Plastic
1 Non-Hazardous paper Paper
1 Non-Hazardous cans Cans
1 Non-Hazardous wood Wood
1 Non-Hazardous food Food Waste
1 Non-Hazardous glass Glass
1 Non-Hazardous cartons Cartons
1 Non-Hazardous foams Foams (EVA, etc.)
1 Non-Hazardous wastewaterTreatmentSludge Pre-water Treatment Sludge
1 Non-Hazardous general General or unspecified waste
1 Non-Hazardous slagnh Slag (Non-Hazardous)
1 Non-Hazardous other Other
1 Hazardous prodchemdrum Empty chemical drums and containers
1 Hazardous prodfilmprint Film and Printing Frame
1 Hazardous prodsludge Pre-water Treatment Sludge
1 Hazardous prodchem Expired/unused/used chemicals
1 Hazardous prodcompgas Compressed gas cylinders
1 Hazardous prodcontammat Contaminated materials
1 Hazardous dombatteries Batteries
1 Hazardous domflolight Fluorescent light bulb
1 Hazardous dominkcart Ink cartridges
1 Hazardous domoilgrease Waste oil and grease from cooking
1 Hazardous productionoil Waste oil and grease not from cooking)
1 Hazardous metalsludge Metal Sludge
1 Hazardous emptyother Empty containers (cleaning, sanitizing, pesticides, etc.)
1 Hazardous domelectronic Electronic Waste
1 Hazardous domcoalcomb Coal combustion residuals
1 Hazardous slag Slag (Hazardous)
1 Hazardous other Other

Waste Aggregates

Waste totals are converted to kilograms from the reported units and aggregations are provided in the following calculations:

wstsourcetotalnonhaz

Total kilograms of non hazardous waste.

wstsourcetotalhaz

Total kilograms of hazardous waste.

wstsourcetotal

Total kilograms of all waste, both hazardous and non hazardous.

Published 11 September 2026 Higg FEM 2024 · fem2024-v0.1.6