These charts display water consumption for several purposes in 6 regions of the world: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Central Asia and South East Asia.
Overall, while industry account for a significant proportion in water use in North America and Europe, other areas spend greatest amount of water for agricultural.
Precisely speaking, water usage for industry in Europe is more than half (at 53 percent), in North America is almost half (at 48), while South America, Africa, Central and South East Asia spend 10, 7, 5 and 12 percent respectively. At the same time in industrial regions water is using less for farming than in agricultural areas (39 and 32 versus 71, 84, 88 and 81). Domestic takes a small proportion of water in all regions, however this resource is using more in South America, at 19 percentage, what is slightly more than In Europe and North America (15 and 13). In Africa this amount counts 9 percent and in Central and South East Asia this amount is the same – 7 percent, what is the tiniest proportion.