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

The value for Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day) in Greece was 60,775 as of 2006. As the graph below shows, over the past 13 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60,775 in 2006 and a minimum value of 46,291 in 1997.

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.

Year	Value
1993	50,857
1994	49,561
1995	48,788
1996	47,161
1997	46,291
1998	46,533
2004	58,640
2005	58,781
2006	60,775

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

The value for Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day per worker) in Greece was 0.20 as of 2006. As the graph below shows, over the past 13 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.20 in 2005 and a minimum value of 0.19 in 1993.

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.

Year	Value
1993	0.19
1994	0.19
1995	0.19
1996	0.20
1997	0.20
1998	0.20
2004	0.20
2005	0.20
2006	0.20

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Water pollution