Freshwater Website: Water Use (Water use data)

Environment Canada has a water use database which includes information on all major water users obtained from national surveys on:

Municipal water use

The first set of data is from a federal and provincial inventory of municipal water works and water treatment facilities published in 1975. It was updated by Environment Canada with 1986, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2004 surveys.

Three sets of summary data, reported by community, are available for download. The definitions of the column headings are contained in a Data Description, which can also be downloaded.

Municipal water pricing

The municipal water pricing database was developed from the Municipal Water and Wastewater Survey. The database is designed to provide easy access to municipal data on water and wastewater pricing from over 1200 Canadian municipalities. These municipalities have populations of at least 1000.

Two sets of summary data, reported by community, are available for download. The definitions of the column headings are contained in a Data Description, which can also be downloaded.

Data description: | HTML | PDF |

1991, 1994, 1996 and 1999 Summary Data: | Excel |

A detailed report on municipal water pricing was released, based on the pricing data collected in the 1999 survey and data from the previous three surveys.

Industrial water use

There have been six use surveys (1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996 and 2005). They were conducted subject to the federal Statistics Act under an agreement between Statistics Canada and Environment Canada.

A detailed report on industrial water use has been released, based on the data collected in the 1996 survey. It makes very general comparisons with the results of the previous two surveys – that conducted in 1991 and to a lesser extent that conducted in 1986.

Data from the Industrial Water Survey are now available for 2005. To order data, for more information, or to enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Statistics Canada.

To download a file: Hold your right mouse button on the file you wish to download. When the menu appears, choose "Save Target As..." or "Save link as...". Choose a suitable directory and file name (if necessary). Click OK and your file should be downloaded. Open the file in an appropriate software (e.g., Microsoft Excel).

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