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The graph and table provides amounts of worldwide usage of water and its expenditure within (the scope of) two different countries, whose land area is given in kilometer squared, over the years 1990 to 2000.
The graph reveals that global water usage rates between the years 1900 and 2000 increased dramatically for all three sectors starting at 500 km3 in 1900, reaching a peak of 3000 km3 in 2000 for the agricultural sector, and from approximately 10 km3 in 1900 increasing gradually to 1000 km3 and to roughly 400 km3 for the Industrial and Domestic sectors respectively.
Between the years 1900 and 1950 the figures for Industrial and Domestic branches remained stable, beginning to rise slightly/gradually after 1960 until the end of the period. The rising trend was more rapid for the Agriculture sector, showing a significant gradual increase over the whole period with somewhat higher figures in 1960, falling slightly in the following decade but continuing steadily grow.
To sum up, it is clear that water usage for all sectors began to grow enormously after the late 1950s.
Considering the table, it compares water expenditure between two countries - Brazil and Congo - in 2000.
In 2000 Brazilians used almost 2 m3 per person with population of 176 million and land area of 26,500 km2 and overall water usage at 359m3. This is compared with approximately 1,2 m3 of water per person Democratic Republic of Congo which is much lower than Brazil, even in terms of the state population of 5,2 million, area of 100km2 and water usage of 8m3.
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