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Can you name the countries with the most total renewable water resources per capita?
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Booger
Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source:
FAO Water Survery
Note: No data available for Dominica, Timor-Leste, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles or Tonga
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Rank
Country
m
3
/Capita/Year
1
609,319
2
316,689
3
292,566
4
275,679
5
166,563
6
133,333
7
113,281
8
100,000
9
94,353
10
86,554
11
85,478
12
82,102
13
79,643
Rank
Country
m
3
/Capita/Year
14
74,743
15
74,546
16
63,184
17
61,135
18
60,614
19
56,893
20
51,814
21
51,021
22
50,635
23
48,314
24
45,564
25
38,849
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Published
: July 22nd, 2009
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cottb128
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:06 GMT
-19 points
what
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Journey2688
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:07 GMT
-22 points
what
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Loona
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:11 GMT
-18 points
the
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uva_rob
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:13 GMT
-23 points
I typed "republic congo" and didn't get credit. Consistency plz.
JohnTheRev
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:15 GMT
134 points
This quiz was originally called "Guess Every Country You Know"
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Henry
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:16 GMT
-83 points
I would love an explanation behind these tiny little countries having more water resources than USA who has 10,000s of reservoirs and fresh water lakes
uva_rob
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:17 GMT
35 points
@Henry - it's per capita
zwieblekopf
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:18 GMT
34 points
think countries with a lot of snow or rain forest
Martin
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:22 GMT
34 points
Interesting quiz. I couldn't figure out any strategy other than that there are many South American countries .
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MovieDynamic
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:30 GMT
-17 points
I'm still not quite sure what it means, but I got 17/25! What!!??
voljtw
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:33 GMT
6 points
@Martin: small populations yet not in the desert is key...however I thought for sure Sweden, Finland, and Norway would be there. Brazil is the real shocker to me...I guess it is 90% rainforest though.
HPZ
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:33 GMT
19 points
Citing the source, "Renewable water resources are computed on the basis of the water cycle. In this report, they represent the long-term average annual flow of rivers (surface water) and groundwater." So aim for countries with big rivers and few people.
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Tuj
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:33 GMT
-8 points
The list may be a pretty unusual one, but that doesn't make it great quiz fodder.
WadeGarrett
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:40 GMT
6 points
22/25, which ain't too bad since I had no idea what they were asking about. When I noticed it was per capita, I went to the part of my brain that did the "most sparsely populated countries" quiz, and figured out that greater land area generally means a greater potential for water resources. That's where I got most of my answers (e.g., Suriname, Guyana, Republic of Congo, Gabon)
PresidentJSC
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:51 GMT
5 points
Netherlands would be high up on this list in a few years...
bmo1616
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:54 GMT
11 points
I'm willing to bet that anyone who attempts the random geography quizzes has mastered the 195/195 countries of the world quiz lol.
BrettCaudill
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:02 GMT
51 points
A country quiz that doesn't include the US, UK, China, Russia, or Mexico....never thought I'd see the day, Sporcle.
y2jdilemma
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:03 GMT
24 points
Thats it!!!! From now on...Im guessing Papua New Guinea on every geography quiz! Its showing up everywhere!
White
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:09 GMT
13 points
"I know! The one with the massive canal in it!" got me #20.
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xxrjrxx
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:13 GMT
-11 points
huh???
Luke Pontorno:
Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:20 GMT
10 points
the way i got a lot was if i got 1, i would try all the countries i knew that bordered it for a similar climate. i also tried ones in the tropics for more rain
btroup1
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:20 GMT
4 points
@HPZ: Therein lies the rub. I once read somewhere that India has the most water within its borders (Snow capped Himalayas). I was baffled that Nepal wasn't on here (same situation but fewer people). Now I understand. It's all about the rivers.
Guinevere
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:21 GMT
3 points
I managed 16 out of 25 once I realized there was fair representation from South America and the little islands of Oceania. I kind of got the concept but typed in things like "Oman" anyway because my brain tends to panic when trying to think of countries. I typed in a bunch of African countries, but none of the ones actually represented. I'm mostly just bitter over missing Denmark - thought I'd gone through all of Scandanavia.
zalagreensbury
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:29 GMT
9 points
S. America made up from their absence in the bulk of the other geo. quizzes this time around. suck it Europe.
HollywoodLeo
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:30 GMT
16 points
Figures. The one time I don't check Republic of the Congo after I'm done checking Democratic Republic of the Congo....
Sneuticles
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:38 GMT
13 points
This was just like the airport quiz from last week (with the run on South American countries), except THIS time i DID guess papua new guinea, and was just as equally shocked to see it light up.
geowiz85
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:51 GMT
9 points
started by guessing all of south america b/c of the abundance of large rivers, then guessed glacial countries, and then it became type every country i know before time runs out.
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kjryan
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:51 GMT
-23 points
This was stupid.
dtro
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:55 GMT
9 points
Rainforest/tropical places and ones with glaciers/snow? with smallish populations. I got 22.
Morbo
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 20:01 GMT
16 points
I really thought Canada would be No. 1. Lots of snow and ice, lots of freshwater lakes, not a lot of people. Surprised it was as low as it is.
melissa
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 20:08 GMT
24 points
Actually, I thought this was a great quiz -- and the topic's really not trivial at all. We're depleting many sources of fresh water at analarming rate, and it will eventually be a much hotter commodity than oil, likely overtaking oil as a source of conflict. Nor is it random. As others have pointed out, you can deduce logical answers by figuring out non-desert countries with low population densities -- especially those with lots of glaciers, lakes, rivers, and/or rainforests. My favorite kind of Sporcle quiz: relies on deduction and application of prior knowledge rather than spitting out a memorized list. Five Sporcle balls!
aloxinbotemill
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 21:03 GMT
5 points
How is Russia not here? Siberia is just a giant block of ice!
Phil_Rose
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 21:04 GMT
9 points
for me this became "list countries with the lowest population density"
HarryHop:
Jul 22nd, 2009 at 21:41 GMT
-3 points
Wow, South America just luuuurve renewable water resources...
Iceberg
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 21:45 GMT
2 points
@aloxin: Actually Siberia is one big swamp, but I wholeheartedly agree that how can Russia not be there? I guess it's all about the per capita thing (which is dumb).
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juvanya:
Jul 22nd, 2009 at 21:45 GMT
-9 points
what a bizarre quiz. I didn't even get what I was looking for until like 1/3 into it.
Bojan:
Jul 22nd, 2009 at 22:13 GMT
-2 points
15/25, but mostly by guessing - I wouldn't expect Guyana to be that much before Canada, and Russia to be nowhere...
theGrit
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 22:19 GMT
8 points
I always guess Guyana because that's where my dad is from, but when it popped up as the second country, I was shocked. Had no idea . . .
ianbob
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 22:24 GMT
9 points
I liked this one because you have to think "wet" (or frozen) and "small population". Not as easy as I expected.
micah
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Jul 22nd, 2009 at 23:58 GMT
7 points
I also liked this one. Sure, in principle it can boil down to "type every country you know", but in practice you don't have time, so you need a strategy...
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