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BAFU 2025 v2, Water pollutants

A comparison of published impact results with VoLCA calculations from the same source data and the publisher’s impact factors. Points on the diagonal agree.

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Engine version
volca 0.13.0 (8c0396c, v0.13.0, linux)
Measured on
Comparison measurements and reference
DatabaseBAFU 2025 v2
Source formatEcoSpold 1
Impact method collectionEcological Scarcity 2021
Impact categoryWater pollutants
UnitUBP
Activities compared11,554
Median ratio (VoLCA / published)11.7881
Comparison band1%
Activities outside the band11,539
Share outside the band99.87%
VerdictDisagrees: misses the agreement a release is held to
Points drawn2,082
Largest relative deviation+325,963.67%
Activity with largest deviationDisposal, spoil from lignite mining, in surface landfill {GLO}
Published referenceBAFU-2025 version2_LCIA Results.xlsx
BAFU 2025 v2, Water pollutants
Each point is one activity: what BAFU 2025 v2 published for Water pollutants (UBP), against what VoLCA computes from the same EcoSpold 1 source under the publisher's own Ecological Scarcity 2021 factors. The black line is equality and the grey band is 1%. 11,554 activities were compared; 11,539 fall outside the band, more than a picture can hold, so 1,926 of the 11,554 are drawn, evenly spaced over the published value whichever side of the band they fall, and the 156 of the 200 farthest from equality that this walk missed are added. Where several fall on one spot, at most three markers are drawn there, since a fourth would not darken it. Median ratio 11.7881, 99.87% outside the band. This misses the agreement a release is held to: at most 5% of activities outside the band and a median ratio inside it.