ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Water consumption in a community is characterized by several types of demand, including domestic, public, commercial, and industrial uses. Domestic demand includes water for drinking, cooking, washing, laundering, and other household functions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Domestic water use includes indoor and outdoor uses at residences, and includes uses such as drinking, food preparation, bathing, washing clothes and dishes, flushing toilets, watering lawns and gardens, and maintaining pools.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are two primary sources of water – surface water and groundwater. The primary water sources used for drinking, cooking, washing, farming, and other commercial uses are surface water, groundwater, and collected rainwater.

Detailed explanation-4: -The largest use of household water is to flush the toilet, followed by taking showers and baths. Toilets account for nearly 30 percent of an average home’s indoor water consumption. Older, inefficient toilets can use as much as three to six gallons per flush.

Detailed explanation-5: -Minimum domestic water Consumption Moving on to the non-domestic consumption, it consists of 4 sectors viz. industrial, institutional and commercial, public uses, and fire demand.