The pie chart illustrates the consumption of water for different purposes in Australia in 2004, while the bar chart details the contribution of residential water use in five sections.
Overall, it is evident that water is predominantly allocated to residential use. Remarkably, gardening required the most water in residential use, while the kitchen needed the least water.
To begin with, in terms of water consumption, residential use was the leading figure, taking up 70% of the total, far exceeding that of industrial and business water use, at 11% and 10%, respectively. In addition, government only presented 6% of the total; however, it still outnumbered the figure for other sections, at only 3%.
In terms of residential water use, garden accounted for 28%, only surpassing the figure for bathroom at a negligible rate (1%). Washing clothes ranked third, constituting 20%, exceeding the percentage of water use in the toilet and kitchen sections by 5% and 10%, in the order.