What is the main use of freshwater worldwide? A. Industry B. Recreation C. Home D. Agriculture

IF by home, you mean drinking, cleaning, etc, then it is home, because everybody needs to drink water.

However, if drinking water is not part of home, the answer should be D. Agriculture, since large amounts of water is needed to enable the plants to survive.

You may argue Industry, but that depends on which one

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kolajero8 kolajero8 · Answer 2 · 2020-02-20T10:30:56+01:00

Answer:

D. Agriculture

Explanation:

Freshwater refers to any water that occur naturally, but this does not include seawater and brackish water. Examples of fresh water are water in rivers, glaciers, ice sheets, underground (groundwater), icebergs, and among others. The main feature of freshwater is that its dissolved salt and other dissolved solids concentration are low

Freshwater is different from potable water which is water that safe to use to prepare food and drinking water. Human activities and natural occurrence like erosion can pollute freshwater. Therefore, it not save to drink freshwater or use it to prepare food without first treating it.

The uses to which freshwater is put to include sanitation system, drinking and crop irrigation in agriculture. Throughout the world, the major use of water is crop irrigation in agriculture as it agriculture accounts for about 70% of used.

Therefore, the main use of freshwater is Agriculture.