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What do you mean by Biochemical oxygen demand?

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Biochemical oxygen demand is the amount of oxygen required by bacteria to decompose organic matter in a certain volume of sample of water. Clean water would have BOD value of less than 5ppm, where as highly polluted water has a BOD of 17ppm or more

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