Water collection, treatment and supply

NACE 3600

Current registrations133

Starters, 12 months · division 365

Employment (FTE) · division 366,277

Median age · division 3621.7 years

In NACE division 36, 3.7 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 80% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 10-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 36

financial year 2025 · median over 64 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

50.4%

higher than 81% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€423,078

higher than 86% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€51,600

higher than 97% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

Foreign control in NACE division 36

125 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.8%

1 of 125; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

0.8%

62 of 7,587 FTE; Belgium 15%

Mostly from France (1).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 36

25 employers

Median

€93,100

Belgium €61,300

Middle half

€79,400 to €106,900

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

3 of 78

by median staff cost per FTE

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

0.75%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 67% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 36 is 0.3%, against 0.2% nationally, over 72 scored companies. Comparison: as of 10-10-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 126 of 133 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 75 · 59.5%

Wallonia 42 · 33.3%

Brussels 9 · 7.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
25-02-2026	AQUA-BELGIAN RENEWABLE ENERGY GROUP BE 0788.551.107

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 22

East Flanders OVL 20

Antwerp ANT 13

Flemish Brabant VLB 13

Limburg LIM 7

Brussels BRU 9

Hainaut HAI 7

Walloon Brabant WBR 3

Namur NAM 9

Liège LIE 22

Luxembourg LUX 1

fewer moremax 22

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €1.36bn awarded 39 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Algemene werkingstoelage aan de exploitanten van een openbaar waterdistributienetwerk
Federal transfers 18.0m amount as published 13 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies voor de lokale overheden in het kader van de strategische veiligheidsplannen en maatregelen gemeenschapswachten
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €106.9m paid 13 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions forfaitaires dans le fondamental
EU budget €3.1m attributed share 7 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Linked to buildings
EU research €4.4m eu contribution 9 recipients · 2011 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 3600 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 36, not NACE 3600 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.