Can you name the countries with the most total renewable water resources per capita?

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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	m³/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	m³/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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Most Water Resources Quiz

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Created by: Booger -
Published: July 22nd, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 66,847

Tags: Country Quizzes, total, capita, water, resource, renewable, rank

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	JohnTheRev:	Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:15 GMT	134 points
	This quiz was originally called "Guess Every Country You Know"

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	uva_rob:	Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:17 GMT	35 points
	@Henry - it's per capita

	zwieblekopf:	Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:18 GMT	34 points
	think countries with a lot of snow or rain forest

	Martin:	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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	voljtw:	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:	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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	WadeGarrett:	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:	Jul 22nd, 2009 at 18:51 GMT	5 points
	Netherlands would be high up on this list in a few years...

	bmo1616:	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:	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:	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:	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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	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:	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:	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:	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:	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:	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:	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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	dtro:	Jul 22nd, 2009 at 19:55 GMT	9 points
	Rainforest/tropical places and ones with glaciers/snow? with smallish populations. I got 22.

	Morbo:	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:	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:	Jul 22nd, 2009 at 21:03 GMT	5 points
	How is Russia not here? Siberia is just a giant block of ice!

	Phil_Rose:	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:	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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	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:	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:	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:	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...