Agriculture is by far the largest user, accounting for more than 60% of abstraction in 2012 and more than 70% of the increase over 2000-12. Human and industrial water use, by contrast, increased only moderately (Figure 1.15). Losses in water distribution relative to total abstraction have decreased slightly since 2000 but still amounted to more than one-third of abstracted freshwater in 2012, and more than 50% in several northern and north-eastern states, primarily because of obsolete water supply and sanitation infrastructure. Per capita water consumption averaged 167 litres per day in 2013: it ranges from 126 litres in the North-east region to 193 litres in the South-east, reflecting differences in climatic conditions and consumption patterns (MCid, 2014).