And the winner is... Qatar!

Watered down brain capacity? :P

industrial water, potable water, mineral water, treated water, what else? Funeral water, water melon, water park, what else?

1st Google and find out what the treated industrial water is. Main energy resouce in Qatar is Gas

you want it to make personal, ok.

Treated water. So it's water and treatment, right? To treat it means you need energy, right or wrong. So using treated water means what, water and energy waste? Just asking!

I was just asking to make it simple discussion.

Arien wrote: "There are 100s of electric bulbs on miles long compound walls lit like there is a marriage in every mansion in this country. yes its free for them. One of those can lit one whole village in other countries"

Most of environmental impact is not from municipal use of energy or other resources, it is industrial. For example, turning off at all UK homes will only reduce UK's emission by 4%. So in case of Qatar, the best could be 10%.

Because Qatar packages clean fuel to the rest of the world, they have to carry the duty of statistics for ecological footprint coming from emissions during the production processes.

I hate to say it, but the reason they probably didn't say "if everyone lived as Qatar does" is because a lot of people would wonder where Qatar is, and what the lifestyle is. Much easier for the global audience of predominantly western people to consider the lifestyles of people in the USA.

At the end of the day, as Fatimah has pointed out above, this is a GLOBAL problem. We, as global citizens, are consuming well above the amount of resources our Earth can replenish.

Something needs to change at a grass roots level. Rather than pointing fingers at how we are all individually excused from doing something personally, and that the responsibility lies elsewhere, we ALL need to think long and hard about how we consume resources.

We are all privileged enough to live in countries that won't be the ones who will ultimately suffer from the consequences of this sort of thing. As global food prices continue to rise, it will be poor from Africa and Asia who will starve and die.

Does anyone on here actually care, or do I just sound annoying like Bono?

fubar, with all due respect to you, you are only reading what you want to read. The report is clear, but your conclusions are false.

Take this from here (page 6) of the summary of the report:

http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_2012_summary_booklet_final.pdf

"if everyone lived like an average resident of the USA, a total of four Earths would be required to regenerate humanity’s annual demand on nature"

They did not say Qatar, the number 1, why?

Also, page 8 pf the same, notice the color code of the graphs on page 7, the major portion of Qatar's foot print which made it no 1 is CARBON.

Download it here

http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/

Sorry not my interpretation but what these studies are based on. (Its not the first and its used to be the UAE no.1 but you've beat them now!)

Which report? give me direct URL, as I followed all links and could not find it.

If you read the report you will see that the ecological footprints used to compare the different countries of the world don't include water consumption as this is intrinsically linked to biocapacity (page 38) so the golf course really isn't relevant.

And it is the per capita production of carbon emissions that have pushed Qatar well and truly ahead of other nations (page 44).

Translator you are wrong.. Its the consumed quantity which is taken in to account !!!

There are 100s of electric bulbs on miles long compound walls lit like there is a marriage in every mansion in this country. yes its free for them. One of those can lit one whole village in other countries :/

Zillions of tons of air conditioners !!!! super powered car engines!!! maintaining the greenery !!!

"maintaining GOLF course! Yeah you are right, PER CAPITA. Qatar waste water for maintaining the single Gold course here and the many new greeneries"

They are using treated Industrial water for this purpose. Ask somebody If you don't know what is treated Industrial water.

Don't talk nonsense.

mozais wrote: "Actually translator you are wrong, they do not take into account the hydrocarbons that are exported just the energy expended per person in Qatar"

That is your interpretation, more of a wishful thinking. Show me how you came to this conclusion, particularly the exemption of the hydrocarbon export.

the expats?

So what do you suggest, scheduled power interruptions? Less water usage to water the public parks and greeneries? If you're at home, are you NOT using your A/C? Air flights, what has it got to do with this discussion? Food importation? For who?

if u don't like this country, simple get the hell outta here lol. Guess what, we don't want/like your kind here.

I wonder what the f__k u typed in google search to find this link. Send me a hard copy of this study and i will wipe my a5S with it. Only interested in anything against Qatar, freaking haters!

Get a L I F E !

This is certainly the only country I have lived in where people leave their engines running while they go in to the shop.

I can't help but wonder if providing free water and electricity to nationals is encouraging (or at least not discouraging) the waste of natural resources.

The report seems pretty much alright.

Actually translator you are wrong, they do not take into account the hydrocarbons that are exported just the energy expended per person in Qatar. You don't need to be a scientist to understand consumption here is on another planet.

Looks at the cars, the use of water, the number of air flights taken per year, the a/c use, the import of nearly all the food supply and its transportation and the list goes on..... Some Qataris I know argue there is only a few of us so we don't make much of an impact globally. That much is true, but that is a good way to say F you to your fellow man, I'm ok you should cut back and pay for the clean up.

who is the powers that be are you talking. This is a global problem and who will be the power to solve it. UN is useless as to this problem.

I don't think anyone should get defensive here. The fact of the matter is no one can deny that there's a whole host of resources wastage here. This is open and obvious, with many offenders being totally blatant and unashamed, and we didn't need any studies to tell us this. And rather than accusing the emerged evidences of being biased,rigged and what not,it's better instead for each and every one of us to dig deeper and wonder if we too have contributed to this shameful and hazardous situation.

And yes this should be a wake up call to the powers that be. Stricter rules and regulations should be imposed and penalties slapped to anyone and everyone who breaks them. And asap or pretty soon the situation can get so bad that all the blaming and repenting will not be of any good,anymore..God forbid!

Exactly per capita. Most of the resources extracted from earth in Qatar are not going to be consumed in Qatar. Hence, the argument is biased towards higher population countries. If per capita domestic consumption is made, Qatar won't be in top 20% for sure.

maintaining GOLF course! Yeah you are right, PER CAPITA. Qatar waste water for maintaining the single Gold course here and the many new greeneries thay are putting up all over to make the place pleasing to expats like us.

And guess what, how many golf courses are there in the US?

Oh BTW, this is a good challenge as to what NUMBER they use for the PER CAPITA, Qataris only or including the expats?

I would imagine that given the huge populations of China and India the per capita consumption of resources is much much lower than places like Qatar.

Per capita

Yup, they listed the top 3 who are rich and can be useful under blackmailing them with these unscientific reports. The top 3 should be China, India and US, but those are dry money-wise.

language? What resources?