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

used for

agriculture

, industry and homes around the world, and

water

use in

Brazil

and the Democratic Republic of

Congo

.

It is clear that

global

water

needs rose significantly between 1900 and 2000, and that

agriculture

accounted for the largest proportion of

water

used. We can

also

see that

water

consumption

was considerably higher in

Brazil

than in the

Congo

. In 1900, around 500km³ of

water

was used by the

agriculture

sector worldwide. The figures for industrial and domestic

water

consumption

stood at around

one fifth

Add a hyphen

one-fifth

show examples

of that amount. By 2000, global

water

use for

agriculture

had increased to around 3000km³, industrial

water

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

consumption

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

Brazil

and the

Congo

were 176 million and 5.2 million respectively.

Water

consumption

per person in

Brazil

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

Congo

, at only 8m³, and

this

could be explained by the fact that

Brazil

had 265 times more irrigated land.