Rank Territory Value11 Afghanistan 88712 Tajikistan 85213 Serbia & Montenegro 83514 Islamic Republic of Iran 83315 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 81516 Dominican Republic 73317 Saudi Arabia 71518 Macedonia FYR 70023 Republic of Moldova 67424 United States 674

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Rank Territory Value1 Turkmenistan 49382 Uzbekistan 21983 Azerbaijan 18894 Kazakhstan 16945 Iraq 15996 Bulgaria 14707 Kyrgyzstan 10828 Pakistan 10039 Romania 97510 Egypt 933

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www.worldmapper.org

Produced by the SASI group (Sheffield) and Mark Newman (Michigan)

“The moment one starts using freshwater beyond the rate at which it can be replenished, the hydrological cycleis endangered.”

This map shows those territories thatuse much of their internal waterresources, measured with a thresholdof people using more than 10% ofrenewable water resouces. Eachterritory is resized based on thevolume of water used beyond 10%.

75 of the 200 territories used less than10% of their renewable internalfreshwater resources. 51 territoriesused between 10% and 100% of waterresources, 15 territories used 100% ormore. 59 territories were missing data.

Egypt uses 33 times its internal waterresources - the River Nile suppliesEgypt with rainwater from elsewhere.Water supplies vary: 4 territories usemore per person than Egypt but under5% of their total internal resources.

• Data are sourced from the World Bank’s 2005World Development Indicators.

• *MIddle Eastern territories with rates estimatedfrom the regional average not included in table.

• *An arbitrary threshold of 10% of internalrenewable water resources is used to allow forgreater use where water is abundant.

• See website for further information.

Territory size shows the proportion of all water usedthat is more than 10% of the renewable internalfreshwater resources of that territory.

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Dinyar Godrej, 2003

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