World Water Use
Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide water use occurring there.
Four thousand cubic kilometres 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.
PDF Poster: http://www.worldmapper.org/posters/worldmapper_map104_ver5.pdf
Labeled Territory Map for Comparison: http://www.worldmapper.org/images/index/land_area_index.png
Population Map for comparison: http://www.worldmapper.org/imagemaps/imagemap2.jpg
2- Relevant Data Files
Excel (large with map): http://www.worldmapper.org/data/withmap/104_worldmapper_data.xls
Excel (small no map): http://www.worldmapper.org/data/nomap/104_worldmapper_data.xls
Excel (small no map): http://www.worldmapper.org/data/opendoc/104_worldmapper_data.ods
3- Technical Notes for the Data: http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=104#
Compare US and Canada. Canada has the most amount of fresh water in the world but it is much smaller than US.
Canada is small because it does not exhaust its water resources. Africa, is really small because African countries have no water to consume :(