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The document discusses water usage from different perspectives such as how much water is used to produce common items like tea, jeans, and t-shirts. It provides statistics on water usage for different countries and regions, finding that China, India, and the US use the most total water annually but water usage per person is higher in the US than India and China. The document also notes that average water usage varies greatly around the world, with people in Central Africa using only 2% of the amount used by those in North America.
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- 1. HOW MUCH WATERDO YOU USE?
- 2. HOW DO YOUUSE WATER?
- 3. HOW MUCH WATER WILL YOU USE IN A YEAR?
- 4. How many cupsof tea will you drink in a year?
- 5. IS THIS THETRUE AMOUNT OF WATER THAT YOU USE?
- 6. HOW MUCH WATER IS THERE AVAILABLE IN THE WORLD?
- 7. 43 600 CUBICKILOMETRES
- 8. DO YOU EVERWORRY ABOUT IT RUNNING OUT?
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- 12. YOU USE ALOT MORE WATER THAN YOU THINK HERE'S HOW
- 13. This is nothow much water you use to make the pot of tea but how much is used to water the tea plant and process the plant into a tea bag
- 14. And what ifyou drink milk with your tea?
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- 22. This water usageis called
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- 24. Why does thisT-Shirt not make sense?
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- 26. That works outat 72 showers! for one T-Shirt x 72
- 27. 10,850 litres ofwater to produce one pair of jeans
- 28. This map showsthe proportion of all worldwide freshwater resources found there.
- 29. This map showsthe proportion of worldwide water use occurring there.
- 30. Four thousand cubickilometres of water are used by people each year around the world, for domestic, agricultural and other industrial purposes. This does not include non-consumptive uses such as energy generation, mining, and recreation. China, India and the United States use the most water. These are also the territories where the most people live. But water use per person is about three times higher in the United States than it is in India and China. Whilst everybody needs water, people use hugely varying quantities. On average, people living in Central Africa each use only 2% of the water used by each person living in North America.
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