Water situation in a Country
Water is distributed very differently all over the world. Some countries are totally surrounded by seawater, others do have fossil groundwater in very large depth with high temperatures and salinity. Some have huge rivers shared with neighbouring country or receiving water and releasing water this way.
Every year the quantity and quality of all this waters does change. Sometimes very little, sometimes dramatically fast. In any case this has an important impact on every country and the nation of the country.
In order to be able to rate the influence of this water dependency we do provide 200 country profiles including historical data as well as projections. These profiles do include* data such as:
- Total land surface
- Total water surface
- Coastline
- Population averaged over five years (Rural population, Urban population, Population density)
- Annual real population till 2010 and annual population prospects till 2100
- Economy and development (GDP, HDI)
- Long-term average precipitation in depth/volume
- National Rainfall Index (NRI)
- Surface water produced internally
- Groundwater produced internally
- Overlap between surface water and groundwater
- Total internal renewable water resources (IRWR)/per capita
- Surface water: entering the country (natural)/inflow (not) submitted to treaties (actual)
- Surface water: inflow secured through treaties (actual)/accounted inflow (actual)/total flow of border rivers/accounted flow of border rivers/outflow not submitted to treaties (actual)/outflow submitted to treaties (actual)/outflow secured through treaties (actual)/total external renewable (actual)
- Groundwater: entering the country/leaving the country
- Water resources: total external renewable
- Total renewable surface water
- Total renewable groundwater
- Total renewable water resources
- Dependency ratio
- Total renewable water resources per capita (actual)
- Total exploitable water resources
- Total dam capacity
- Dam capacity per capita
- Agricultural water withdrawal
- Industrial water withdrawal
- Municipal water withdrawal
- Total water withdrawal
- Water withdrawal for irrigation
- Irrigation water requirement
- Total water withdrawal per capita
- Fresh surface water withdrawal
- Fresh groundwater withdrawal
- Total freshwater withdrawal
- Desalinated water produced
- Produced municipal wastewater
- Collected municipal wastewater
- Treated municipal wastewater
- Not treated municipal wastewater
- Direct use of treated municipal wastewater
- Desalination Technology in use
- Desalination Patents assigned (No.)
- Desalination Companies in Country (No.)
- Desalination Institutes in Country (No.)
- Desalination Universities in Country (No.)
* Not every Country Profile does include all data (e.g. coast-line, missing records,...)
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Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
Congo (Republic of the)
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
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