The Bahamas - Organic water pollutant

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

The value for Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day) in The Bahamas was 884.86 as of 2001. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 924.25 in 2000 and a minimum value of 600.46 in 1991.

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
1989 636.66
1990 623.27
1991 600.46
1992 603.09
1995 658.75
1996 671.19
1997 696.96
1998 834.67
1999 865.10
2000 924.25
2001 884.86

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

The value for Organic water pollutant (BOD) emissions (kg per day per worker) in The Bahamas was 0.32 as of 2001. As the graph below shows, over the past 12 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.32 in 2001 and a minimum value of 0.27 in 1990.

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
1989 0.27
1990 0.27
1991 0.28
1992 0.28
1995 0.31
1996 0.30
1997 0.30
1998 0.32
1999 0.31
2000 0.31
2001 0.32

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Water pollution