🥧📋 IELTS Writing Task 1 — Test 18 (Pie + Table Combo)

Household water use · Band B2
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Task

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The pie chart below shows the breakdown of household water use by activity in Country W in 2023. The table shows the average daily water use per person (in litres) in urban and rural areas of four countries in the same year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

Band B2 Pattern: Pie + Table combo Time: 20 min Min. 150 words

Breakdown of household water use by activity, Country W, 2023

Average daily water use per person (litres), urban vs rural, 2023

CountryUrban (litres)Rural (litres)
Country W180140
Country X210160
Country Y95110
Country Z150120

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Overview: Toilet flushing + showering chiếm hơn nửa lượng nước dùng ở Country W (pie); đa số nước thành thị dùng nhiều nước hơn nông thôn, riêng Country Y thì ngược lại (table).
The pie chart shows how households in Country W used water in 2023, while the table shows the average daily water use per person in urban and rural areas of four countries in the same year. Overall, toilet flushing and showering together accounted for the largest share of household water use in Country W, while the table shows that urban residents generally used more water per day than rural residents, except in Country Y, where the pattern was reversed. In Country W, toilet flushing was the single largest use of water, at twenty-eight percent, closely followed by showering at twenty-five percent; together these two activities accounted for over half of all household water use. Laundry accounted for a further eighteen percent, while garden or outdoor use made up fifteen percent. Dishwashing and cooking, together with other uses, made up the remaining fourteen percent. Turning to the table, urban residents in Country X used the most water per person of any group, at 210 litres a day, compared with 160 litres for rural residents in the same country — the largest urban-rural gap among the four countries. Country W and Country Z showed a similar but smaller gap, with urban use exceeding rural use in both cases. Country Y stood out as the exception: rural residents there used slightly more water than urban residents, at 110 litres compared with 95 litres, reversing the pattern seen everywhere else.