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BEST IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, 29th September
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The graph below shows the daily water consumption for Americans in their homes.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The graph shows the amount of water used in homes each day in the U.S. both with and without water conservation methods. The water conservation methods offer a considerable reduction in water consumption in most activities.
Each day, American consumes many gallons of water for a variety of reasons. The most water is used when flushing toilets, followed respectively by washing clothes (in a dishwasher.) In total, per day, every American uses nearly twenty gallons of water just flushing the toilet. On the other end of the spectrum, washing dishes uses only about one gallon of water a day. In total, Americans use, on average, about seventy gallons of water a day.
However, if water conservation methods were put in place, these numbers would be reduces significantly. The savings would be most considerable in the case of toilet-flushing; water used would fall from around 20 gallons a day to only slightly more than ten gallons with water conservation methods. Around four or five gallons of water would be saved for most ‘other uses’. The expectations are using faucets, and the other uses category, where water conservation methods would have no effect.
Still, over all, implementation of conservation methods would mean that total water consumption would drop from a daily average of nearly seventy gallons per person to around fifty gallons per person.
