Water withdrawals per capita in Turkmenistan amount to 2,740 cubic meters per inhabitant, according to the latest available data from 2021. This is a far higher volume than in many other countries, such as China, where per capita water withdrawals were 398.7 cubic meters as of 2021. Global water withdrawals Countries around the world withdraw huge volumes of water each year from sources such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and groundwater. China has some of the largest annual total water withdrawals across the globe, at 581.3 billion cubic meters per year. In comparison, Mexico withdrew almost 90 billion cubic meters of water in 2021. Water scarcity Although roughly 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered with water, less than one percent of the planet's total water resources can be classified as accessible freshwater resources. Growing populations, increased demand, and climate change are increasingly putting pressure on these precious resources. This is expected to lead to global water shortages around the world. In the United States, the megadrought in the west has seen water levels of major reservoirs that provide water to millions of people plummet to record lows. In order to prevent severe droughts in water-stressed areas today and in the future, a more efficient use of water is essential.
This statistic represents the projected water consumption worldwide in 2014 with projections until 2040, broken down by sector. In 2040, it is projected that water consumption under the agricultural sector will reach 1,405 billion cubic meters worldwide.
It is projected that global water demand will reach 4,350 billion cubic meters in terms of withdrawal by 2040. In the last few decades, the growth in water demand has doubled that of population growth. Water demand growth is also likely to vary based on region and sector. Regionally, water demand growth is expected to come mostly from India, Africa, and other developing countries in Asia. The agricultural industry is one of the largest consumers of water worldwide, primarily for irrigation purposes. Trends in water use will be largely dependent on urbanization, rising living standards, demand for goods, and changes in dietary preferences.
Water accessibility
A vast number of people worldwide still lack access to drinking water sources, while an even larger population has no access to improved sanitation services. In India, over 75.8 million people have no household access to a safe water source. Striving to provide safe water access to these remaining population groups would likely also increase domestic water demand as well as the energy and infrastructure that would need to be put in place to provide these basic needs.
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Water Consumption: Average: per Capita: Central West data was reported at 153.520 l in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 147.750 l for 2021. Water Consumption: Average: per Capita: Central West data is updated yearly, averaging 148.750 l from Dec 2012 (Median) to 2022, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 160.680 l in 2013 and a record low of 144.880 l in 2018. Water Consumption: Average: per Capita: Central West data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Cities. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Environmental, Social and Governance Sector – Table BR.EVB005: Operational Indicators: Water Consumption Indicators.
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CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Guangxi data was reported at 272.951 l in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 273.730 l for 2022. CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Guangxi data is updated yearly, averaging 267.700 l from Dec 1996 (Median) to 2023, with 28 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 319.000 l in 2002 and a record low of 234.970 l in 2014. CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Guangxi data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Utility Sector – Table CN.RCA: Water Consumption: Daily per Capita: Residential.
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China Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential data was reported at 188.799 l in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 184.732 l for 2022. China Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential data is updated yearly, averaging 178.638 l from Dec 1978 (Median) to 2023, with 46 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 220.240 l in 2000 and a record low of 120.600 l in 1978. China Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Utility Sector – Table CN.RCA: Water Consumption: Daily per Capita: Residential.
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CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Shaanxi data was reported at 153.623 l in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 162.504 l for 2022. CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Shaanxi data is updated yearly, averaging 163.322 l from Dec 1996 (Median) to 2023, with 28 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 208.640 l in 1996 and a record low of 131.600 l in 2006. CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Shaanxi data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Utility Sector – Table CN.RCA: Water Consumption: Daily per Capita: Residential.
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The dataset constitutes the first reconstructed global water use data product at sub-annual and sub-national/gridded resolution that is derived from different models and data sources; it was generated by spatially and temporally downscaling country-scale estimates of sectoral water withdrawals from FAO AQUASTAT (and state-scale estimates of USGS for the US). In addition, the industrial sector was disaggregated into manufacturing, mining and cooling of thermal power plants by using historical estimates from GCAM. Downscaling was performed using the output of various models and new modeling approaches, which includes the spatial and temporal downscaling methodologies for water withdrawal in previous studies (Wada et al., 2011; Voisin et al., 2013; Hejazi et al., 2014). For the consumptive water use, irrigation water consumption is reconstructed based on estimates by 4 GHMs and consumptive water use efficiency (the proportion of water consumption to water withdrawal), which is calculated based on simulation of Flörke et al (2013) and USGS estimates, is used to generated global consumptive water use for the remaining sector. Therefore, a global monthly gridded (0.5 degree) sectoral water use dataset for the period 1971–2010, which distinguishes six water use sectors, i.e. irrigation, domestic, electricity generation (cooling of thermal power plants), livestock, mining, and manufacturing, was reconstructed. The detailed descriptions for this dataset are presented in Huang et al. (in review).
The graph shows the countries with the largest share of global water consumption. 12 percent of the world's water is consumed in China.
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China Water Consumption: Agriculture data was reported at 367,240.000 Cub m mn in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 378,130.000 Cub m mn for 2022. China Water Consumption: Agriculture data is updated yearly, averaging 372,311.458 Cub m mn from Dec 1999 (Median) to 2023, with 25 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 392,151.876 Cub m mn in 2013 and a record low of 343,281.297 Cub m mn in 2003. China Water Consumption: Agriculture data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Water Resources. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Land and Resources – Table CN.NLM: Water Resource.
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China Water Consumption: Industry data was reported at 97,020.000 Cub m mn in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 96,840.000 Cub m mn for 2022. China Water Consumption: Industry data is updated yearly, averaging 127,700.000 Cub m mn from Dec 1999 (Median) to 2023, with 25 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 146,180.000 Cub m mn in 2011 and a record low of 96,840.000 Cub m mn in 2022. China Water Consumption: Industry data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Water Resources. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Land and Resources – Table CN.NLM: Water Resource.
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Much of the world’s data are stored, managed, and distributed by data centers. Data centers re-quire a tremendous amount of energy to operate, accounting for around 1.8% of electricity use in the United States. Large amounts of water are also required to operate data centers, both directly for liquid cooling and indirectly to produce electricity. For the first time, we calculate spatially-detailed carbon and water footprints of data centers operating within the United States, which is home to around one-quarter of all data center servers globally. Our bottom-up approach reveals one-fifth of data center servers direct water footprint comes from moderately to highly water stressed watersheds, while nearly half of servers are fully or partially powered by power plants located within water stressed regions. Approximately 0.5% of total US greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to data centers. We investigate tradeoffs and synergies between data center’s water and energy utilization by strategically locating data centers in areas of the country that will minimize one or more environmental footprints. Our study quantifies the environmental implications behind our data creation and storage and shows a path to decrease the environmental footprint of our increasing digital footprint..
In 2023, the Coca-Cola Company's water use ratio was 1.97 liters of water used per liter of product produced. The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling partners – which are collectively known as the Coca-Cola system – had a water use ratio of 1.79 liters of water used per liter of product produced. Overall, the Coca-Cola Company's water withdrawals amounted to nearly 312 billion liters in 2022.
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Assessing global freshwater resources and human water demand is of value for a number of needs but challenging. The global water use and water availability model WaterGAP is in development since 1996 and serves a range of applications and topics as such as Life Cycle Assessments, a better understanding of terrestrial water storage variations (e.g., jointly with satellite observations), water (over)use and consequently depletion of water resources, as well as model evaluation and model development. In the paper connected to this dataset (doi:10.5194/gmd-14-1037-2021), the newest model version, WaterGAP 2.2d is described by providing the water balance equations, insights to input data used and typical model applications. The most important and requested model outputs (total water storage variations, streamflow and water use) are evaluated against observation data. Standard model output, driven by the climate input WFD-WFDEI (for the years 1901-2016) is described. Caveats of specific output data and an overview of model applications as well as an outlook of future model development lines are presented as well. […]
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The data contains production and water consumption data fro 160 crops in >12'000 watershed units and global coverage. Unique features: - uncertainty of irrigation water consumption in estimates - watershed level (allows quantification of water scarcity footprint) - watershed split by country to allow country footprint assessment
The data contains: - a shape file "WS_ctry.zip" - a XLS file (can be joined to shapefile by field "FID"): "watershed_WF_crops.xlsx" - a XLS file (can be joined to shapefile by field "FID"): "BlueWGeoMean_Watershed_monthlys.xlsx"
The Excel file "watershed_WF_crops.xlsx" contains different tabs, which can be linked to the shapefile: - total BlueWater (total m3 irrigation water consumption in watershed) - total green water (total m3 green water consumption in watershed) - Production_ton (total production of crop in watershed in metric tons) - BW_per ton (m3/ton irrigation water consumption: expected result) - BW_min_per ton (m3/ton irrigation water consumption: minimum estimate) - BW_max_per ton (m3/ton irrigation water consumption: upper estimate) - Green water per ton (m3/ton green water; natural water supply) ------ The FID can be linked to BAS34S_ID based on the "BlueWGeoMean_Watershed_monthly.xlsx"
The Excel file "BlueWGeoMean_Watershed_monthly.xlsx" contains tabs of monthly BW consumption for applying temporally and spatially explicit water scarcity assessments of cropproduction. This data is also on watershed level and can be linked to the shapefile. the data is described in the "readme" tab.
Details are described in Pfister and Bayer 2014 (doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.11.031)
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Indonesia Water Statistic: Consumption: Bali data was reported at 374,658.000 IDR mn in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 495,937.000 IDR mn for 2015. Indonesia Water Statistic: Consumption: Bali data is updated yearly, averaging 177,358.000 IDR mn from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2017, with 22 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 495,937.000 IDR mn in 2015 and a record low of 19,245.000 IDR mn in 1995. Indonesia Water Statistic: Consumption: Bali data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Indonesia – Table ID.RIG002: Water Consumption.
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Indonesia Water Statistic: Consumption data was reported at 14,253,691.000 IDR mn in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 12,854,363.000 IDR mn for 2015. Indonesia Water Statistic: Consumption data is updated yearly, averaging 8,250,734.000 IDR mn from Dec 2003 (Median) to 2017, with 14 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14,253,691.000 IDR mn in 2017 and a record low of 4,240,740.000 IDR mn in 2003. Indonesia Water Statistic: Consumption data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Central Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Indonesia – Table ID.RIG002: Water Consumption.
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This study examines the validity of the assumption that international large-scale land acquisition (LSLA) is motivated by the desire to secure control over water resources, which is commonly referred to as ‘water grabbing’. This assumption was repeatedly expressed in recent years, ascribing the said motivation to the Gulf States in particular. However, it must be considered of hypothetical nature, as the few global studies conducted so far focused primarily on the effects of LSLA on host countries or on trade in virtual water. In this study, we analyse the effects of 475 intended or concluded land deals recorded in the Land Matrix database on the water balance in both host and investor countries. We also examine how these effects relate to water stress and how they contribute to global trade in virtual water. The analysis shows that implementation of the LSLAs in our sample would result in global water savings based on virtual water trade. At the level of individual LSLA host countries, however, water use intensity would increase, particularly in 15 sub-Saharan states. From an investor country perspective, the analysis reveals that countries often suspected of using LSLA to relieve pressure on their domestic water resources—such as China, India, and all Gulf States except Saudi Arabia—invest in agricultural activities abroad that are less water-intensive compared to their average domestic crop production. Conversely, large investor countries such as the United States, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Japan are disproportionately externalizing crop water consumption through their international land investments. Statistical analyses also show that host countries with abundant water resources are not per se favoured targets of LSLA. Indeed, further analysis reveals that land investments originating in water-stressed countries have only a weak tendency to target areas with a smaller water risk.
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Brazil Water Consumption: Micromeasured data was reported at 10.500 Cub m in 2022. This records a decrease from the previous number of 10.870 Cub m for 2021. Brazil Water Consumption: Micromeasured data is updated yearly, averaging 11.300 Cub m from Dec 2012 (Median) to 2022, with 11 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 13.240 Cub m in 2012 and a record low of 10.500 Cub m in 2022. Brazil Water Consumption: Micromeasured data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Cities. The data is categorized under Brazil Premium Database’s Environmental, Social and Governance Sector – Table BR.EVB005: Operational Indicators: Water Consumption Indicators.
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The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. Canada's water use in a global context indicator reports on the amount of water removed from the environment per person per year for use in agriculture, manufacturing and in homes, and as a percentage of each country's total renewable water supply for nine countries, including Canada. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: static and interactive maps, charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for data sources and details on how those data were collected and how the indicator was calculated. Supplemental Information Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators - Home page: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators
Water withdrawals per capita in Turkmenistan amount to 2,740 cubic meters per inhabitant, according to the latest available data from 2021. This is a far higher volume than in many other countries, such as China, where per capita water withdrawals were 398.7 cubic meters as of 2021. Global water withdrawals Countries around the world withdraw huge volumes of water each year from sources such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and groundwater. China has some of the largest annual total water withdrawals across the globe, at 581.3 billion cubic meters per year. In comparison, Mexico withdrew almost 90 billion cubic meters of water in 2021. Water scarcity Although roughly 70 percent of Earth's surface is covered with water, less than one percent of the planet's total water resources can be classified as accessible freshwater resources. Growing populations, increased demand, and climate change are increasingly putting pressure on these precious resources. This is expected to lead to global water shortages around the world. In the United States, the megadrought in the west has seen water levels of major reservoirs that provide water to millions of people plummet to record lows. In order to prevent severe droughts in water-stressed areas today and in the future, a more efficient use of water is essential.