World water use: Percentage-wise

The pie graph presents data on world water usage in 2000 and the bar chart breaks up the same data in four countries: China, India, New Zealand and Canada, for the same period.

As per the pie graph, 70% of the total water is used for agricultural purposes whereas only 22 % of water is exploited for industrial purposes. A very small percentage, eight, was for domestic purposes.

The bar chart shows that China used 69 percent of its total water for agricultural purposes followed by industries, taking 22%, and only 9% was utilized for domestic purposes whereas India used 92% of its total water for agriculture. Only five percent is used for domestic purpose and the remaining 3% was spared for industries.

Coming to a developed country like New Zealand, almost equal percentage of water is used for both agricultural and domestic purpose, 44 and 46, and the remaining 10% is left for industry. In Canada agriculture took only 8% of its total water, followed by domestic use taking 12%, and remaining 80% was used for industries.

Developing nations used much more water for agricultural purposes than what developed nations used for industrial and domestic purposes.

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