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In reply to the discussion: Can we achieve growth & equality while kicking Climate Change? [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,295 posts)25. Domestic water use is a fairly small part of the overall amount
In both high, and low-and-middle income countries - 11% and 8% respectively. In high income countries, industry uses another 59%, and agriculture 30%; in low-and middle, it's 10% and 82% (figures from 2001; the industrial use in places like China has probably gone up since then)
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001295/129556e.pdf
What that also points out is that Asia has 36% of the world's freshwater resources, but 60% of the population, many of whom are in poverty now; that's the continent most likely to have major water supply problems, with any development that gets people out of poverty.
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It's not the size of our economy, it's our income distribution that's the problem.
pampango
Jan 2013
#59
These ideas can't do anything for the global situation unless implemented en masse
NoOneMan
Jan 2013
#15