The charts below show the percentage of water used for different purposes in six areas of the world.

The pie charts compare the percentage of the three main uses of

water

, for

industry

,

agriculture

and domestic

use

, in six regions of the world.

It is clear that

in South

America

, Africa, central

Asia

and southeast China,

water

was mainly used in agricultural areas.

However

, in North

America

and Europe,

industry

accounted for the most amount of

water

use

, followed by

agriculture

. Both regions used the least amount of

water

for households. In South

America

, Africa, Central

Asia

and South East

Asia

,

agriculture

took up the majority of

water

use

. In central

Asia

, even 88% of

water

was used in

this

section, followed by only 7% in domestic

use

and 5% in

industry

. A similar situation could be seen in Africa and South

America

.

While

in South East

Asia

, the main purpose of

water

use

was

also

for

agriculture

, at 81%, but the second largest usage was for

industry

, at 12%, which differed from the other three regions.

Whereas

Europe and North

America

used by far the most amount of

water

for their

industry

, both around half of the whole. They

use

only 32% and 39% of their

water

for

agriculture

and 15% and 13% for domestic

use

respectively.