The bar chart illustrates the average consumption of two types of water supplies across seven industries.
Overall, it is evident that the chemicals industry has the highest amount of water usage among all others, while fuel has the lowest. Additionally, ground-water is utilized more than public water in all sectors except food/drinks and machinery.
The chemicals industry uses the largest amount of ground-water and public water with 430 and 240 units respectively, meanwhile the metals have second highest water consumption with corresponding figures of 240 and 90.
Moreover, machinery and food/drink sectors are the only ones that report higher public supply usage than ground-water. Machinery uses 100 units of public supply water, ten times the ground-water it uses, while food and drinks uses 190 units of public supply water in contrast to 110 of ground-water.
Despite its minimal public water usage, the paper sector has the third highest demand for groundwater, with 190 units consumed per year. Notably, fuel, textiles and paper industries use less than 20 units of public supply water each.