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    Humans need water for domestic, industrial, and agricultural purposes. Domestically, water is used for drinking, cooking, washing, flushing toilets, washing clothes, and watering gardens. Industrially, water is used for cooling in power production, as a solvent, and for textile dyeing. Agriculturally, the greatest use is for irrigation, as plants need water for mineral transport, cell structure, and photosynthesis, and livestock need water to survive.

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    Humans need water for domestic, industrial, and agricultural purposes. Domestically, water is used for drinking, cooking, washing, flushing toilets, washing clothes, and watering gardens. Industrially, water is used for cooling in power production, as a solvent, and for textile dyeing. Agriculturally, the greatest use is for irrigation, as plants need water for mineral transport, cell structure, and photosynthesis, and livestock need water to survive.

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    Humans need water for domestic, industrial, and agricultural purposes. Domestically, water is used for drinking, cooking, washing, flushing toilets, washing clothes, and watering gardens. Industrially, water is used for cooling in power production, as a solvent, and for textile dyeing. Agriculturally, the greatest use is for irrigation, as plants need water for mineral transport, cell structure, and photosynthesis, and livestock need water to survive.

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    PART 3: WHY HUMANS NEED WATER

    Humans need water for domestic, industrial and agricultural purposes.


    Domestic
    In the home water is, of course, used for drinking and cooking, but this only
    accounts for about 3% of domestic use. In more economically developed
    countries (MEDCs) about 50% of domestic water is used for washing and
    flushing the toilet and a further 20% for washing clothes. Much less domestic
    water is used for washing, flushing the toilet and laundry in less economically
    developed countries (LEDCs), although the actual proportions vary. In some
    situations quite a lot of water is used for watering the garden and a substantial
    amount is often lost in leaks. The proportions of these uses and losses varies.
    Water for domestic use needs to be especially safe.
    Industrial
    Water is used in a vast range of industrial processes. One of the largest uses is
    for cooling in the production of electricity. Another use of water relies on the
    fact that a very wide range of substances is soluble in it. Water is often
    described as the universal solvent.

    Figure 1 Estimates lay 20% of the world’s industrial water pollution at the feet of fashion’s textile-dyeing and treatment
    processes.

    Agricultural
    By far the greatest
    use of water in
    agriculture is for
    irrigation (see Section
    3.4). The use of water
    for irrigation often
    forms the largest
    proportion of water
    use for a whole
    Figure 2 It takes about 270 gallons (1,022 litres) of water to produce a dollar’s worth of
    sugar. country. Plants need
    water to transport
    minerals and food, to keep their cells rigid and to combine with carbon dioxide
    to make food in photosynthesis (see Section 9.1). This means that, for
    successful growth of crops, a reliable supply of water will be needed. In
    addition, domestic animals require a reliable source of water.

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