The table below shows water use for different purposes in four countries. The use of water by four different countries (%).
The table provides information about the proportion of
water
being used for four territories in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand and Canada.
Overall
, the amount of water
being used for agriculture
in Egypt is the highest, while
the figure for industry
can be seen in Canada. In addition
, the share of water
being used for domestic is lowest in almost all countries, except Canada.
82% of water
in Egypt was allocated for agriculture
, followed by industry
and domestic at 10% and 8% respectively. Similarly
, the share of water
being used in agriculture
in Saudi Arabia far exceeds that of industry
and domestic, with respective figures being 64%, 30% and 6% in that order.
Conversely
, New Zealand used water
in industry
the most, at 46%, compared to 44% in agriculture
and 10% in domestic. The percentage of water
being used for industry
is the highest, followed by domestic (20%) and agriculture
(10%).Submitted by phuongdong.nguyentran on
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