How much water does the average household use? More importantly what percentage of the total consumption of water in Australia (22186 Gigalitres) is used in Cities and towns? 70%? 50%? 30%?
How about: less than 20%? Depending on the figures available (and no, they're not easy to find) the amount of water used in Australian households is between 8% and 16% (about 3500 Gigalitres) of the total used in Australia. Those figures are from 1996-7 so the true figure would probably come in under that since there has been such a concerted effort to reduce domestic consumption due to the recent crippling drought in Eastern Australia.
So where's the water being used? Primarily in Agriculture (70%). Most of that is being used to irrigate crops such as rice and cotton. Why isn't this wasteful use of water bigger news?
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