The graph and table below give information about water use worldwide and water consumption in two different countries.

The two given graphs illustrate the global

water

use

for different purposes and how Brazil and Congo consumed

water

in the year 2000.

Overall

, there is an annually increasing tendency in

water

consumption worldwide and agriculture accounted for the major usage. A quick glance at the table reveals that Brazil’s

water

consumption was much higher than Congo’s. Looking at the details of the line chart, in 1900, 500km3 of

water

was spent on global agriculture,

while

the amount of

water

used for industry and homes was just one-fifth of that amount. There was a threefold increase in agricultural

water

use

during the latter half of the 20th century, from around 1000km3 in 1950 to approximately 3000km3 in 2000. Meanwhile, the rising trends of industrial

use

and domestic

use

were much slower. More specifically, by 2000, the

water

use

for industry had been under half as much as that for agriculture and domestic

water

use

had only reached about 500km3. In terms of the data about the

water

consumption per person, Brazilian used significantly more

water

than citizens in Congo, at 359m3 per individual. It is

also

clear that the population of Brazil was much denser than that of Congo, and its irrigated land was 265 times as much as Congo’s.