Band 5+: The first chart below shows information about the consumers of water in Australia in 2004. The second chart gives details of residential water use in Australia in the same year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie chart depicts the proportion of the users of water in Australia, while the bar chart illustrates the usage of water for resident in Australia in 2004.

Overall, it can be observed that there was a majority of bottled water consumed for residential purposes, which was the largest part in 2004. Additionally, garden accounted for the largest share of residential water use in Australia whereas kitchen ranked last.

Regarding the consumers of bottled water in 2004, there was 70% of residential water use, which were 17% of apartment and 53% of houses. Moreover, the bottled water consumption of industrial sector and commercial sector saw an equal rate that was 10%. Meanwhile, 6% of bottled water use came from the government and the other kind of customers just represented the smallest proportion, which was 3%.

Concerning the detailed report of water consumption in residential area of Australia in 2004, garden irrigation took 28%, which was the largest amount whereas 27% of residential water use belonged to bathroom. In addition, there was a higher amount of water used in cleaning and cooking than toilet use, which were 30% and 15%.