The given charts give information about the percentage of water consumed by 5 different categories as well as the proportion of water used by residents in Australia by 2004.
Overall, residential accounted for the highest percentage among sectors. Meanwhile, water used for gardening stood for the largest share among residential consumption factors.
Looking at the pie chart, it is obvious that the percentage of water used for residential purposes accounted for 70% of total water consumption, far exceeding all other categories, while the smallest share was only 3%. In contrast, the rate of industrial and business represented at 11% and 10%. Noticeably, both of them had the share that approximately doubled the figure for the government.
Turning to the bar chart, the proportion of gardening stood at 28%, followed closely by bathroom use at 27%. Afterward, the figure for washing clothes and kitchen constituted 20% and 15%, respectively. It was also recorded that the amount of water used in the kitchen placed the lowest place, was roughly a half of figure for the former and 1.5 of the figure for the latter.