The pie chart and table below show how water was used worldwide and in four selected countries in 2000.

The pie chart and table compare 1the proportionwater the proportion of water use worldwide and in four countries in 2000 2across three sectorsin terms of three sectors.

Overall, agriculture had the largest water use 3globally as well as in China and Indiain the world including China and India, but New Zealand and Canada were exceptions. Industry was the second and 4domestic usethe domestic was generally the least.

India and China shared broadly similar patterns with the world trend in 6agriculturalagriculture water use, although India 7had the highest proportionshowed the most use, at approximately 92%, far exceeding that in the world, at 70%, and China , at 69%. 8However, of 9industrialIndustry water use, only the proportion in China followed the same worldwide pattern, 10matching the global sharebeing the least one, at 22%, compared with India 11where it was only 3%which lied in between. 12Domestic water consumption was lowerDomestic water was less than that of industry in the world, China, and India, although the figure for 13China, at 9%, was slightly higher than that for the world, at 8%China, at 8%, was slightly higher than that for the world, at 7%.

15The other two countries showed somewhat different patterns. New Zealand recorded 16its highest proportion of water use in the domestic sectorthe peak of water utilization domestically, at approximately 46%, compared with 1744% in agriculture and 10% in industryabout 44% which was used in agriculture and about 10% which was consumed by industry. In Canada, water consumption in industry was the dominant category, at 80%, 18followed distantly by domestic usefollowed far by that in domestic, at only 12%, 19with agriculture accounting for the lowest sharewhile in agriculture, the proportion was the lowest, at only 8%.