The pie charts delineate the proportion of water consumption by citizens in 1988 and 2008.
Overall, the bathroom and kitchen subsequently increased their figures, while the opposite trend was observed in the garden, laundry and toilet with a tangible decline over the period.
The statistics of the kitchen depicted a dramatic rise by doubling its original share from just 15% in 1988 to 30% in 2008 and became predominant among the other categories. Likewise, the bathroom ascended the water utilisation moving up to 29% in 2008 which was noticeably higher than 25% in 1988.
Conversely, washing clothes minimised the water usage over the following decades dropping from 22% in 1988 to 19% in 2008. Furthermore, the toilet’s water use percentages illustrated a downward trajectory reaching its lowest figure of 14% in 2008. Interestingly, the garden shares decreased drastically in this timeframe changing from 20% to marginal 8% in 2008, and towards the end remained as the least water utilizing category. The charts below show information on residential water use in 1988 and 2008.