Percentage of population reliant on groundwater

The illustration shows the percentage of the population reliant on groundwater for municipal, domestic, and rural use only.

• Canada: 30.3 percent
  
  
• Alberta: 23.1 percent
• British Columbia: 28.5 percent
• Manitoba: 30.2 percent
• New Brunswick: 66.5 percent
• Newfoundland and Labrador: 33.9 percent
• Northwest Territories and Nunavut: 28.1 percent
• Nova Scotia: 45.8 percent
• Ontario: 28.5 percent
• Prince Edward Island: 100 percent
• Quebec: 27.7 percent
• Saskatchewan: 42.8 percent
• Yukon: 47.9 percent

Based on 1996 figures.

Sources:
Statistics Canada, Environment Accounts and Statistics Division, special compilation using data from Environment Canada, Municipal Water Use Database.
Statistics Canada, 1996, Quarterly Estimates of the Population of Canada, the Provinces and the Territories, 11-3, Catalogue no. 91-001, Ottawa.