The table below gives information about the daily cost of water per person in five different countries. (Figures are based on the minimum daily requirement per peron of 11.5 litres.)

The table compares how much people have to pay for their minimum daily

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needs in five countries. It

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shows what percentage of the average daily

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each location represents. First of all, we can see that Tanzania and Uganda have the highest daily

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of

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,

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the United Kingdom and the United States have the lowest.

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means,

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, that Tanzanians pay 6.4 cents,

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Americans pay only 0.85 cents for the same amount of

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. These differences are even greater when we consider the percentage of the average daily

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represents. In both Tanzania and Uganda, the

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is significant, accounting for 5.7% and 3.2%, respectively.

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, in the UK and US, the

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is only a fraction of the daily

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at 0.013% and 0.006%. And

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the daily

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of

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in Pakistan is similar to that of the UK, it represents up to 1.1% of the daily

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. In general, the table shows that there are significant differences between the

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of

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in developing countries and the industrialized West.