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

The charts compare the amount of

water

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used for

agriculture

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, industry and homes around the world, and

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use in

Brazil

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and the Democratic Republic of

Congo

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.

It is clear that

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global

water

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needs rose significantly between 1900 and 2000, and that

agriculture

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accounted for the largest proportion of

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used. We can

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see that

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consumption

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was considerably higher in

Brazil

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than in the

Congo

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. In 1900, around 500km³ of

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was used by the

agriculture

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sector worldwide. The figures for industrial and domestic

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consumption

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stood at around

one fifth

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of that amount. By 2000, global

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use for

agriculture

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had increased to around 3000km³, industrial

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use had risen to just under half that amount, and domestic

consumption

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had reached approximately 500km³. In the year 2000, the populations of

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and the

Congo

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were 176 million and 5.2 million respectively.

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consumption

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per person in

Brazil

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, at 359m³, was much higher than that in the

Congo

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, at only 8m³, and

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could be explained by the fact that

Brazil

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had 265 times more irrigated land.