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WATER POLLUTION

Country Emissions of Organic Water Pollutions Industry shares of emissions of organic water pollutions
  Kilograms per day Kilograms per day per worker Primary metals (%) Paper and pulp (%) Chemicals (%) Food and beverages (%) Stone ceramics and glass (%) Textiles (%) Wood (%) Others(%)
  1980 1998 (a) 1980 1998 (a) 1998 (a) 1998 (a) 1998 (a) 1998 (a) 1998 (a) 1998 (a) 1998 (a) 1998 (a)
Bangladesh 66713 186852 0.16 0.16 2.8 6.8 3.5 34.2 0.1 50.9 0.6 1.1
India 1422564 1760353 0.21 0.19 15 8.4 8.9 49.1 0.2 12.9 0.3 5.3
Nepal 18692 26550 0.25 0.14 1.5 8.1 3.9 43.3 1.2 39.3 1.7 1.0
Pakistan 75125 114726 0.17 0.18 14.1 5.8 7.3 39.5 0.2 30.1 0.3 2.7
Sri Lanka 30086 83850 0.18      0.17 1 6.5 6.0 47.5 0.2 36.6 1 1.2

Note : ndustry shares may not sum to 100 percent because data may be from different years. a= Data refers to any year from 1993 to 1998.
Report :World Development Indicators : 2001 , The World Bank, Washington, 2001.
Indicators for 1980-93 were drawn from a 1998 study by Hemamala Hettige, Muthu Kumara Mani and David Wheeler, Industrial Pollution n Economic Development : Kuznets Revisited  (available on web at www.world bank.org/nipr). The World Bank's Development Research roup using the same methodology as the initial study. Sectoral employment numbers are from UNIDO's industrial data base.  Data Source :

 
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