The horizontal bar chart depicts water consumption across seven different industries—fuel, food and drinks, machinery, metal, chemicals, paper, and textiles—sourced from both groundwater and public water supply. Units are measured in millions of cubic meters.
Overall, groundwater supply was significantly higher than public supply in most cases. While the chemicals sector was the largest consumer of water, the fuel industry, conversely, used the least.
According to the chart, the chemicals category used 240 million cubic meters of water from the public supply, which is significantly less than its groundwater consumption of 430 million cubic meters. Similarly, the metal industry ranked second in overall consumption, using 330 million cubic meters of water, with groundwater making up 240 million cubic meters.
Meanwhile, fuel and textile industries also relied more on groundwater, consuming 70 and 80 million cubic meters respectively, while public water supply in these categories was just 10 million cubic meters. In contrast, the paper industry showed a much more significant use of groundwater (190 million cubic meters) compared to the public supply, which provided only 20 million cubic meters.
Conversely, the food and drinks industry primarily depended on public water, consuming 190 million cubic meters compared to just 110 million from groundwater. Machinery’s public water consumption, at the same time, was 10 times higher (100 million cubic meters) than its groundwater supply (10 million cubic meters).