The two pie charts illustrate the proportion of water used for different types of agricultural products and the shares of income earned from them in Australia in 2004.
Overall, most of the water was spent on fruit and vegetable crops in 2004, which were also the most profitable products in the same year.
Vegetables accounted for 46 per cent of used water in 2004, while the share of fruits took up 28 per cent. Despite this, fruits earned Australia more money, with 42 per cent of all income from agriculture, while vegetables comprised one third of the total agricultural earnings.
Other agricultural products combined accounted for approximately one quarter of water spendings and one quarter of the total income. Among these products, cereal and dairy comprise the largest shares of water spendings with 12 and 8 per cent, respectively. The value of these two categories in the total income from agriculture in Australia in 2004 took up 26 per cent.
