The pie and bar charts below show the percentage of water consumption and use in Australia in 2004.

the pie chart illustrates the proportion of

water

consumption in different areas in Australia in the year 2004,

whereas

the bar graph compares the

purposes

of residential

water

usage.

overall

, a significant amount of

water

was utilised for residential

purposes

,

while

other categories were relatively similar in the surveyed year. remarkably, the consumption of

water

in the bathroom and garden is recorded to head the list in terms of residential

water

use. looking in detail, the percentage of

water

usage in residential areas accounted for 70%, followed by the figure for industrial and business

purposes

, taking up 11% and 10%, respectively. the category of government's

water

usage reached 6%, which was 2 times higher than that of "others" in the given year. regarding the bar graph, the proportion of

water

utilization in the garden hit its peak of 28%,

while

only 10% of

water

was used in the kitchen.

moreover

,

this

figure for washing clothes was 20% in comparison with 15% of that in the toilet. residents used over a quarter of the total

water

for

purposes

in the bathroom.