After use, treated or untreated water is returned to the environment. The difference between water abstraction and return is regarded as water consumption (water use). The average return ratio of water by cooling is around 80 %([1]), while agriculture returns around 30 % of total water abstraction back to the environment.
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2. sentence: water use and water consumption have not the same meaning in statistical terms.
The consistency between water use and water consumption has been checked throughout the chapters and fixed.