The agricultural sector remains the main user of available water and accounts for 71 percent of total water demand; the industrial sector accounts for two percent, the domestic sector for five percent and the remaining 22 percent are for ecological balance. The trend, however, is for a reduction in the share of agriculture with a corresponding increase in both industrial and domestic water usage.
Currently about 80 percent of the urban population have access to treated pipe drinking water and this is planned to increase to 91 percent by the year 2017. As for the rural population, about 70 percent are served with piped water systems, rainwater jars and tube wells for drinking water, but household consumption still has to rely on other water sources.