High income OECD countries Compared by Environment > Water > Freshwater pollution

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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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Israel	27.07 tons/cubic km	2001
2	Czech Republic	7.9 tons/cubic km	2001
3	Denmark	7.13 tons/cubic km	2001
4	Poland	5.85 tons/cubic km	2001
5	South Korea	5.68 tons/cubic km	2001
6	Japan	4.27 tons/cubic km	2001
7	Spain	3.7 tons/cubic km	2001
8	United Kingdom	3.34 tons/cubic km	2001
9	Switzerland	3.02 tons/cubic km	2001
10	Portugal	2.5 tons/cubic km	2001
11	France	2.49 tons/cubic km	2001
=12	Greece	1.32 tons/cubic km	2001
=12	Slovenia	1.32 tons/cubic km	2001
14	Netherlands	1.29 tons/cubic km	2001
15	United States	1.14 tons/cubic km	2001
16	Austria	0.88 tons/cubic km	2001
17	Slovakia	0.76 tons/cubic km	2001
18	Ireland	0.68 tons/cubic km	2001
19	Sweden	0.62 tons/cubic km	2001
20	Finland	0.61 tons/cubic km	2001
21	Chile	0.25 tons/cubic km	2001
22	Norway	0.2 tons/cubic km	2001
23	New Zealand	0.17 tons/cubic km	2001
24	Canada	0.11 tons/cubic km	2001
25	Iceland	0.08 tons/cubic km	2001

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