Total Water Use per capita by Country

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This map shows total water withdrawal per capita by country. Water withdrawal is the quantity of water removed from available sources for use in any purpose. Water drawn-off is not necessarily entirely consumed and some portion may be returned for further use downstream.

Current world total water withdrawal: ~499 m³/inhabitants/year ( 499,000 liters each person )

Annual quantity of freshwater withdrawn for agricultural, industrial and municipal purposes. It includes renewable freshwater resources as well as potential over-abstraction of renewable groundwater or withdrawal of fossil groundwater and eventual use of desalinated water or treated wastewater. It does not include other categories of water use, such as for cooling of power plants, mining, recreation, navigation, fisheries, etc., which are sectors that are characterized by a very low net consumption rate.

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Citation: ChartsBin statistics collector team 2010, Total Water Use per capita by Country, ChartsBin, viewed 11th March, 2010, <http://chartsbin.com/view/u8u>.

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 2009, AQUASTAT online database, Water use, by sector and by source, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome, Italy, viewed 3rd February, 2010, <http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/main/index.stm>.

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