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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 21st June
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The charts below give information about the way in which water was used in different countries in 2000. Water use, selected countries, 2000.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The two diagrams give figures for water use in different parts of the world in 2000. The first indicates that almost three-quarters of world consumption (70%) was for agriculture while 22% was used for industry and a mere 8% for domestic purposes.
This pattern is almost identical to that for China in 2000, whereas India used even more water (92%) for agriculture and only 8% for industrial and domestic sectors. In contrast, New Zealand used almost equal proportions for agriculture and household use, 44% and 46% respectively and a slight higher 10% was consumed by industry. The pattern in Canada is almost the reverse of the world average, with a mere 8% of water consumed by agriculture and a massive 80% by industry.
Only 12% was used by the domestic sector, which was almost a quarter of the NZ industrial consumption. Overall, the data shows that water use in the two developing countries is closer to the world patterns of consumption.
