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

water

needs in five countries. It

also

shows what percentage of the average daily

wage

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

cost

of

water

,

while

the United Kingdom and the United States have the lowest.

This

means,

for example

, that Tanzanians pay 6.4 cents,

while

Americans pay only 0.85 cents for the same amount of

water

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

wage

this

cost

represents. In both Tanzania and Uganda, the

cost

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

However

, in the UK and US, the

cost

is only a fraction of the daily

wage

at 0.013% and 0.006%. And

although

the daily

cost

of

water

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

wage

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

cost

of

water

in developing countries and the industrialized West.