Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Water use: top 10 countries in 2010

From an IMF publication (PDF):
The 'Agricultural Land Area' heading is wrong, it is the total land area of the country.  Noteworthy are that Pakistan is the most water-intensive (water used per unit of GDP) country, and that India's per capita water use is so much higher than China's. 


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The Middle East and South Asia have the most severe challenges in terms of available resources per capita.
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Well India has 1100+ cubic meters per capita of renewable fresh water resources ( http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ER.H2O.INTR.P... ); is apparently using 631 (see above) and I'm not sure why it can't attain a China per-capita of 461.

Of course, that may not what all these numbers mean; might have to look up the documents that spell out what all these are.

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