Necessity of water - how it is used, and wasted.

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Necessity of water

We all know that water is absolutely necessary for life but the majority of people living in countries rich in water for example the UK and America don’t really understand how precious waster is and how society in more economically developed countries (MEDC’s) would collapse without it. We can slit the uses of water into four basic categories these are domestic, industry, agriculture, leisure they can be abbreviated by DIAL. Domestic water use is water that is used inside and outside of people homes. People water in homes for a number of different purposes for example drinking, preparing food, bathing, washing clothes and dishes, brushing your teeth, etc. many homes have a leaky tap somewhere a small drip from a tap can waste as much as 75 litres of water per day that is 27375 litres of water per year. This is a lot of water considering that About 70 percent of the earth is covered by water and only 2.5% as fresh water and suitable for us to drink leaving a massive 97.5% of water salty causing it undrinkable as salt cause cells in the body to dehydrate so given that you drank enough of it salty water will kill you. This table shows how much water people use wasting water compared to saving water.

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Industrial water use is water that is used in industry to create products it is likely that every manufactured product uses water during some part of the production process. The image shows the amount of water needed to make some products:

Water is used in agriculture mainly to produce food Up to 70 % of the water we take from rivers and groundwater goes into agriculture the table shows how much water is needed for some basic everyday food.

Finally water is used in leisure ...

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