Table 1. Comparing Data Removal by the Power-Cooling Ratio Filter by Aggregated WURM Categoriesa.
| water use reporting methods | total data records |
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|---|---|---|---|
| raw data | power-cooling ratio | % Removed | |
| estimated methods | 69,496 | 57,432 | 17.36% |
| measured methods | 69,343 | 58,893 | 15.07% |
| other (provided explanation in schedule 9) | 3026 | 2040 | 32.58% |
| permitted value, not measured | 1113 | 817 | 26.59% |
| no reported method | 14,474 | 12,723 | 12.09% |
a
The total number of original records are reported alongside the number of records after applying our data filtering procedure using the power-cooling ratio. The percentage of removed records is reported in the last column for each WURM.