The horizontal bar chart depicts water consumption across seven industries – fuel, food and drinks, machinery, metal, chemicals, paper, textiles – sourced from both ground water and public supplies. 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 sector, conversely, used the least.
Looking at the details, The chemical sector used 240 million of cubic meters from the public supply, which is almost two times less than groundwater consumption (430 million of cubic meters). The second predominant is the metal sector with 240 and 90 million of cubic meters used from ground water and public supplies, respectively.
Meanwhile, the fuel and textile sectors exhibited the least consumption of public supply (both 10 million of cubic meters), whereas the usage of ground water registered 70 and 80 million of cubic meter, respectively. Similarly, only 10 million of cubic meter used from ground water belonged to the machinery industry, at the same time, the consumption from public supply was 10 times higher (10 million of cubic meters)
However, the food and drink industry primarily depended on public water, consuming only 190 million of cubic meters compared to 110 million of cubic meter from groundwater. At last, the paper sector showed a significant use of ground water (190 million of cubic meter), in contrast to consumption from public supply (only 20 million of cubic meters)