Croatia - Organic water pollutant

Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day)

The value for Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day) in Croatia was 42,854 as of 2007. As the graph below shows, over the past 10 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48,494 in 1997 and a minimum value of 41,209 in 2005.

Definition: 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.

Source: 1998 study by Hemamala Hettige, Muthukumara Mani, and David Wheeler, ""Industrial Pollution in Economic Development: Kuznets Revisited"" (available at www.worldbank.org/nipr). The data were updated by the World Bank's Development Research Group using the same methodology as the initial study.

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Year Value
1997 48,494
1998 47,211
1999 45,283
2000 43,993
2001 43,138
2002 42,802
2003 42,986
2004 42,152
2005 41,209
2006 41,826
2007 42,854

Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day per worker)

The value for Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day per worker) in Croatia was 0.17 as of 2007. As the graph below shows, over the past 10 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.17 in 2003 and a minimum value of 0.17 in 2007.

Definition: Emissions per worker are total emissions of organic water pollutants divided by the number of industrial workers. 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.

Source: World Bank and UNIDO's industry database.

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Year Value
1997 0.17
1998 0.17
1999 0.17
2000 0.17
2001 0.17
2002 0.17
2003 0.17
2004 0.17
2005 0.17
2006 0.17
2007 0.17

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Water pollution