Australia: agriculture forestry and fishing water consumption volume 2022

During fiscal year 2022, approximately 9.98 thousand gigaliters of water were consumed by the agriculture, forestry, and fishing industry in Australia. The agriculture, forestry, and fishing industry was responsible for a large share of water consumption across industries in the country. The effective management of water supply and water consumption are important for Australia, a country which is the driest inhabited continent on earth.

Total consumption of water by the agriculture, forestry and fishing industry across Australia from financial year 2018 to 2022 (in gigaliters)

Characteristic	Consumption in gigaliters
2022	9,980.62
2021	9,712.18
2020	7,108.67
2019	8,976.01
2018	11,600.29

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Release date

October 2023

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Region

Australia

Survey time period

financial years 2018 to 2022

Supplementary notes

Consumption for each industry includes self-extracted use and distributed water use.

Australia's financial year runs from July 1 to June 30; for example, financial year 2017 starts on July 1, 2016 and ends on June 30, 2017.

Values have been rounded.

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