Water collection, treatment and supply

NACE 36000

Current registrations134

Starters, 12 months · division 365

Employment (FTE) · division 364,264

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 26-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 36

fiscal year 2025 · median over 49 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

52.6%

higher than 86% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€553,674

higher than 91% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€58,143

higher than 96% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

0.00%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 90% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 36 is 0.4%, against 0.5% nationally, over 71 scored companies. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 127 of 134 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 76 · 59.8%

Wallonia 42 · 33.1%

Brussels 9 · 7.1%

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 8

Brussels BRU 9

Hainaut HAI 7

Walloon Brabant WBR 3

Namur NAM 9

Liège LIE 22

Luxembourg LUX 1

fewer moremax 22

Public money 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 12 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 36000 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 36000 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.