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

The graph illustrates the information about

water

that was used in agriculture, industrial and domestic,

while

the table presents

water

consumption

in

Brazil

and

Congo

in 2000.

Overall

,

it is clear that

the

consumption

of each sector increased over the period given.

Moreover

,

Brazil

consumed more

water

than

Congo

. At the beginning of the year, agriculture used around 500km3 of

water

, which was the highest.

By contrast

, industrial and domestic only used almost one of ten in 1900. By 2000, agriculture still consumed the most which accounted for just under 3,000km3. In the case of industrial and domestic,

water

consumption

went up slightly to roughly 1,300km3 and 500km3 respectively. Regarding

Brazil

,

water

consumption

was 359m3 per person which almost tripled

in contrast

to the

consumption

of

Congo

. As for the irrigated land,

Brazil

had 265 times more than

Congo

. With regards to the population,

Brazil

had 176 million people,

whereas

Congo

had only 5.2 million people.