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http://www.ec.gc.ca/Water/en/manage/use/e_use.htm
 * In 2001, Canadians used an average of 335 litres of water each day.
 * A mere 10% of our home water supply is used in the kitchen and as drinking water.
 * About 65% of indoor home water use occurs in our bathrooms. Toilets are the single greatest water user.
 * Indoor water use peaks twice a day year-round, in the mornings and evenings.
 * The biggest peaks during the year occur in the summer, when about half to three quarters of all municipally treated water is sprayed onto lawns.
 * As a community grows, the water use grows even faster because the diversity of water uses increases with size.

1.1 billion people live without clean drinking water

2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation (2002, UNICEF/WHO JMP 2004)

1.8 million people die every year from diarrhoeal diseases.

3 900 children die every day from water borne diseases (WHO 2004)

Daily per capita use of water in residential areas: - 350 litres in North America and Japan - 200 litres in Europe - 10-20 litres in sub-Saharan Africa

Quantity of water needed to produce 1 kg of: - wheat: 1 000 L - rice: 1 400 L - beef: 13 000 L (D.Zimmer,and D.Renault, 2003)


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