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1. How does water supply ans sanitation use water? (4 of 5)










 

   
Industrial users

 

Industrial use
Industrial water use varies enormously from industry to industry and from country to country. Among the biggest water consumers are the pulp and paper industry and steel manufacturing.


 

Municipal water
Combining projections of demographic and industrial growth, the World Resources Institute estimated in 1997 that demand for municipal water supplies could rise by a factor of five or more in the next four decades.

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