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.Submitted by s_syedy on
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