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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 6th August
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The charts show the amount and quality of water supplied to two regions of the world. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The following summarise how the provision of water, together with its quality, changed for Australia and South-east Asia, from 1990 to 2010.
Over the 20 years, all indexes improved apart from the quality of Asia’s water, which actually deteriorated somewhat. Additionally (and predictably for a developed nation), in both years Australia delivered water to a substantially higher proportion of its population, and in a much purer form, although Asia can take some consolation form the fact that their supply enlarged enough to come respectably close to its southern neighbour.
Looking at Australia, 1990 saw 80% of the nation in receipt of water. Two decades later, this had increased to 97%, which is as close to full delivery as, one would think, was possible for a country of such dimensions. A similar gain was seen in quality, form 70% to 85%, thus scoring a commendable dual success in this important field of public works.
Moving to SE Asia, capacity achieved a healthy advance, from 35% to three quarters of the populace (although falling 22% short of Australia’s near perfect result). However, quality declined from 40% to 35%, which somewhat undermines this region’s gains in the provision of this most necessary commodity.
Such results must be considered alongside Asia’s population surge over this period, compared to Australia’s merely small and incremental growth.
