Band 6+: The charts below give information about the amount and types of water in the world, and also tell the use of water in three areas in three countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The given pie charts illustrate the allocation of world’s water and the proportion of water used in different categories in three countries namely Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Canada.

Overall, the majority of water in the world is saline, meanwhile, frozen water is the biggest source of fresh water while the opposite is true for fresh renewable water. As well as this, water is mainly used in Agriculture in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, while Canada’s industry uses a more significant percentage of water compared to that in the 2 remaining countries.

First of all, 97.50% of total world water is saline water, while the remaining is fresh water. Particularly, fresh water mainly comes from frozen water with 69.80%, which is remarkably 40% higher than the proportion for fresh underground water. In contrast, fresh renewable accounts for the smallest portion of fresh water at 0.30%, which is 3 times lower than the figure for underground ice.

Regarding water usage in 3 countries, Saudi Arabia and Egypt mainly use it for agriculture, with the percentages for them being 50% and 40% respectively. Domestic in both countries use a similar percentage of water at around 10%. Nearly 20% of water is used for industry, which is double that of Egypt. Meanwhile, water is largely used in industry in Canada with around 45%, this is followed by the figure for agriculture at 30% and only approximately 20% of water is used in household.