System Description: Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service

The system-of-interest for this System Description is the Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service. This Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service is described as an Enterprise situated in an Ecosystem.

This System Description focuses on the following elements:

• Organizations that own water and sanitation Technology Systems.

• Capabilities provided by the organizations

• The network of organizations that deliver the infrastructure service.

• The various types of ecosystems (terrestrial and aquatic) that interact with this infrastructure service.

The Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service is described as an Enterprise at a level of an Industry Sector with the full value system from producer to consumer.

PDF: System Description: Enterprise as a System of Systems (SoS), Version 0.21, 27-Septermber-2026

The Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service is situated in an Ecosystem that identifies the biophysical boundary for the service. This may be a City-Region, bioregion, etc. The definitions used in this System Description are based upon the Ecological System (Ecosystem) system description.

PDF: System Description: Ecological System (Ecosystem), Version 0.4, 06-November-2023

NOTE: Most of the infrastructure services also relate closely to the appropriate United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service supports Goal 6.

The Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service uses the Infrastructure Service (SoS) model based upon the Enterprise (SoS) model. This model can also be used to model an entire industry sector that includes research and suppliers. The Water and Sanitation Infrastructure Service System Description covers the operational aspects of this infrastructure service.