The pie chart illustrates the percentage of world water use in 2000, while the other depicts the water use in selected nations in 2000.
Overall, it is clear that for the world water use, the figure of agriculture was the greatest, while that for domestic was the lowest. Moving to selected countries, while the proportion of China and India had the highest figure in agriculture water use, that for New Zealand and Canada were domestic and industry use, respectively.
Regarding the world water use, the proportion of agriculture was the highest with 70 percent which was 48 percent higher than the second one (Industry) and 62 percent greater than the lowest sector (domestic). As for the proportion of China and India, while the percentage of agriculture was 69 percent and 92 percent, respectively, the proportion of Industry in China was 22 percent which was 19 percent greater than India.
Moving to New Zealand and Canada water consumption, the percentage of industry use in Canada was the highest with about 80 percent which was 70 percent greater than New Zealand. Notably, the percentage of Agriculture and domestic in New Zealand was 44 percent and 46 percent, respectively which was about 33 percent higher than those for Canada.
