DEFINITION
Industrial organic pollutants per available freshwater
Units: Metric Tons of BOD Emissions per Cubic Km of Water
Units: Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by
biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that
bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants. The data from the World Bank, which represented BOD emissions (kilograms per day) were normalized by the combination of
water availability per capita and water inflow availability per capita from the WaterGap2.1 model. In calculating the ESI, the base-10 logarithm of this variable was used.
| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
(top to bottom)
|
| #1 |
Israel: |
27.07 tons/cubic km |
|
| #2 |
Jordan: |
11.53 tons/cubic km |
|
| #3 |
Tunisia: |
11.4 tons/cubic km |
|
| #4 |
Algeria: |
8.58 tons/cubic km |
|
| #5 |
Czech Republic: |
7.9 tons/cubic km |
|
| #6 |
Morocco: |
7.85 tons/cubic km |
|
| #7 |
Denmark: |
7.13 tons/cubic km |
|
| #8 |
Poland: |
5.85 tons/cubic km |
|
| #9 |
Korea, South: |
5.68 tons/cubic km |
|
| #10 |
Ukraine: |
5.52 tons/cubic km |
|
| #11 |
South Africa: |
4.74 tons/cubic km |
|
| #12 |
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: |
4.7 tons/cubic km |
|
| #13 |
Japan: |
4.27 tons/cubic km |
|
| #14 |
China: |
3.78 tons/cubic km |
|
| #15 |
Spain: |
3.7 tons/cubic km |
|
| #16 |
Egypt: |
3.58 tons/cubic km |
|
| #17 |
United Kingdom: |
3.34 tons/cubic km |
|
| #18 |
Switzerland: |
3.02 tons/cubic km |
|
| #19 |
Portugal: |
2.5 tons/cubic km |
|
| #20 |
France: |
2.49 tons/cubic km |
|
| #21 |
Oman: |
2.3 tons/cubic km |
|
| #22 |
Jamaica: |
2.19 tons/cubic km |
|
| #23 |
Armenia: |
2.14 tons/cubic km |
|
| #24 |
Slovenia: |
1.32 tons/cubic km |
|
| #25 |
Greece: |
1.32 tons/cubic km |
|
| #26 |
Netherlands: |
1.29 tons/cubic km |
|
| #27 |
Lithuania: |
1.29 tons/cubic km |
|
| #28 |
El Salvador: |
1.21 tons/cubic km |
|
| #29 |
Hungary: |
1.17 tons/cubic km |
|
| #30 |
United States: |
1.14 tons/cubic km |
|
| #31 |
Turkey: |
1.1 tons/cubic km |
|
| #32 |
India: |
0.97 tons/cubic km |
|
| #33 |
Austria: |
0.88 tons/cubic km |
|
| #34 |
Latvia: |
0.8 tons/cubic km |
|
| #35 |
Kenya: |
0.78 tons/cubic km |
|
| #36 |
Slovakia: |
0.76 tons/cubic km |
|
| #37 |
Philippines: |
0.69 tons/cubic km |
|
| #38 |
Ireland: |
0.68 tons/cubic km |
|
| #39 |
Sweden: |
0.62 tons/cubic km |
|
| #40 |
Finland: |
0.61 tons/cubic km |
|
| #41 |
Bulgaria: |
0.51 tons/cubic km |
|
| #42 |
Senegal: |
0.48 tons/cubic km |
|
| #43 |
Russia: |
0.43 tons/cubic km |
|
| #44 |
Mexico: |
0.42 tons/cubic km |
|
| #45 |
Zimbabwe: |
0.42 tons/cubic km |
|
| #46 |
Malaysia: |
0.4 tons/cubic km |
|
| #47 |
Costa Rica: |
0.36 tons/cubic km |
|
| #48 |
Croatia: |
0.32 tons/cubic km |
|
| #49 |
Albania: |
0.27 tons/cubic km |
|
| #50 |
Chile: |
0.25 tons/cubic km |
|
| #51 |
Norway: |
0.2 tons/cubic km |
|
| #52 |
Botswana: |
0.18 tons/cubic km |
|
| #53 |
New Zealand: |
0.17 tons/cubic km |
|
| #54 |
Nepal: |
0.17 tons/cubic km |
|
| #55 |
Indonesia: |
0.16 tons/cubic km |
|
| #56 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina: |
0.16 tons/cubic km |
|
| #57 |
Ethiopia: |
0.16 tons/cubic km |
|
| #58 |
Panama: |
0.15 tons/cubic km |
|
| #59 |
Guatemala: |
0.12 tons/cubic km |
|
| #60 |
Canada: |
0.11 tons/cubic km |
|
| #61 |
Cote d'Ivoire: |
0.11 tons/cubic km |
|
| #62 |
Ecuador: |
0.09 tons/cubic km |
|
| #63 |
Iceland: |
0.08 tons/cubic km |
|
| #64 |
Venezuela: |
0.07 tons/cubic km |
|
| #65 |
Cameroon: |
0.05 tons/cubic km |
|
| #66 |
Colombia: |
0.03 tons/cubic km |
|
| #67 |
Uruguay: |
0.03 tons/cubic km |
|
| #68 |
Burma: |
0 tons/cubic km |
|
| #69 |
Mozambique: |
0 tons/cubic km |
|
| |
Weighted average: |
2.4 tons/cubic km |
|
DEFINITION: Industrial organic pollutants per available freshwater
Units: Metric Tons of BOD Emissions per Cubic Km of Water
Units: Emissions of organic water pollutants are measured by
biochemical oxygen demand, which refers to the amount of oxygen that
bacteria in water will consume in breaking down waste. This is a standard water-treatment test for the presence of organic pollutants. The data from the World Bank, which represented BOD emissions (kilograms per day) were normalized by the combination of
water availability per capita and water inflow availability per capita from the WaterGap2.1 model. In calculating the ESI, the base-10 logarithm of this variable was used.
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