September 17, 2024Population Density Distribution by Country and Subnational Division (based on 1x1km grid cells)
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infobeautiful on September 12, 2024 6:24 pm **sources** US Geological Survey, Food & Agriculture Org of the United Nations (FAO) & others https://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthhowmuch.html https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/overview/methodology/water-use **data** https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mwfxv5ttD3Elo03w-dEWhzkBduLqkwJ_bSADLX0Gm0A/edit?gid=7#gid=7 **tools** hand drawn in Adobe Illustrator Taken from the book *Knowledge is Beautiful* by David McCandless (HarperCollins 2014) https://geni.us/IIB-KIB
PostsNDPStuff on September 12, 2024 6:41 pm This is an extraordinary and completely original visualization. I love it.
Cjak99 on September 12, 2024 6:46 pm Great visual! Would you mind providing some details about the tools you used to make it?
iamnogoodatthis on September 12, 2024 6:50 pm So you’re saying there’s as much water inside insects as there is in all the world’s rivers? Isn’t that horrifying. In good news, that’s the amount of water humans use (per year?), so we could just get all our water from insects if we wanted.
theArtOfProgramming on September 12, 2024 6:56 pm Great illustration. I understand a great deal of agricultureral water use is for animal feed too — grains to feed cows primarily.
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**sources** US Geological Survey, Food & Agriculture Org of the United Nations (FAO) & others
https://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthhowmuch.html
https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/overview/methodology/water-use
**data** https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mwfxv5ttD3Elo03w-dEWhzkBduLqkwJ_bSADLX0Gm0A/edit?gid=7#gid=7
**tools** hand drawn in Adobe Illustrator
Taken from the book *Knowledge is Beautiful* by David McCandless (HarperCollins 2014) https://geni.us/IIB-KIB
This is an extraordinary and completely original visualization. I love it.
Great visual! Would you mind providing some details about the tools you used to make it?
So you’re saying there’s as much water inside insects as there is in all the world’s rivers? Isn’t that horrifying.
In good news, that’s the amount of water humans use (per year?), so we could just get all our water from insects if we wanted.
Great illustration.
I understand a great deal of agricultureral water use is for animal feed too — grains to feed cows primarily.