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 the consumption in Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

It is clear that

the global demand for water resources rose significantly between 1900 and 2000, and that agriculture accounted for the largest proportion of that was used. We can

also

see that water consumed in Brazil was considerably higher than that in Congo. In 1900, around 500km³ of it was used by the agriculture sector worldwide. The figures for industrial and domestic consumption stood at around one-fifth of that amount. By 2000, global use of the resource for farming had increased to around 3000km³, industrial use had risen to just under half that amount, and domestic consumption at approximately 500km³. In the year 2000, the populations of Brazil and Congo were 176 million and 5.2 million respectively, where each person was able to consume 359m³ of the resource in the South American country, which was much higher than that in the African country, standing at only 8m³, and

this

could be explained by the fact that the largest Latin American country had 265 times more irrigated land.