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  • 1. Indoor water conservation practices
    Table: 38-10-0102-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table shows the indoor water conservation practices, Canada and provinces. The table is biennial.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 2. Outdoor water usage by households, Canada, provinces and census metropolitan areas (CMA)
    Table: 38-10-0282-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    This table contains 2880 series, with data for years 2015 - 2015 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (48 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; ...); Type of supply (3 items: Municipal and non-municipal water supply; Municipal water supply; Non-municipal water supply);  Outdoor water use (20 items: Had a barrel or cistern; Had a lawn; Watered lawn during previous summer; Used a lawn sprinkler or sprinkler system; ...).

    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 3. Irrigation volume by province and drainage region
    Table: 38-10-0239-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Irrigation volume by month, province and drainage region. The unit of measure is cubic metres.
    Release date: 2025-10-03
  • 4. Irrigation volume by crop type
    Table: 38-10-0240-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Irrigation volume by month and crop type. The unit of measure is cubic metres.
    Release date: 2025-10-03
  • 5. Total area that received irrigation by crop type
    Table: 38-10-0241-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Total area that received irrigation by crop type, province and drainage region. The unit of measure is hectares.
    Release date: 2025-10-03
  • 6. Number of farms by irrigation status
    Table: 38-10-0242-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number of farms by irrigation status, province and drainage region.
    Release date: 2025-10-03
  • 7. Number of farms and percentage of irrigation water by water source
    Table: 38-10-0246-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number of farms and percentage of irrigation water by water source, province and drainage region.
    Release date: 2025-10-03
  • 8. Qualitative analysis of substances in the wastewater of Canadian cities January to December 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202517739281
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-06-26
  • 9. Statistical approaches for estimating industrial water intake in Canada
    Articles and reports: 16-001-M2025002
    Description: This paper investigates methods for predicting industrial water intake during the non-surveyed years of the Industrial Water Survey. Several statistical models at the national level were compared for their predictive accuracy.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 10. Physical flows by final demand category
    Table: 38-10-0010-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Energy use (terajoules), greenhouse gas emissions (kilotonnes), and water use (cubic metres x 1,000) by category of final demand (Personal expenditure, non-profit institutions serving households' consumption expenditure, government net current expenditure, gross fixed capital formation, and international exports).
    Release date: 2025-02-06
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  • 1. Indoor water conservation practices
    Table: 38-10-0102-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table shows the indoor water conservation practices, Canada and provinces. The table is biennial.
    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 2. Outdoor water usage by households, Canada, provinces and census metropolitan areas (CMA)
    Table: 38-10-0282-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area part
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description:

    This table contains 2880 series, with data for years 2015 - 2015 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (48 items: Canada; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; ...); Type of supply (3 items: Municipal and non-municipal water supply; Municipal water supply; Non-municipal water supply);  Outdoor water use (20 items: Had a barrel or cistern; Had a lawn; Watered lawn during previous summer; Used a lawn sprinkler or sprinkler system; ...).

    Release date: 2025-12-09
  • 3. Irrigation volume by province and drainage region
    Table: 38-10-0239-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Irrigation volume by month, province and drainage region. The unit of measure is cubic metres.
    Release date: 2025-10-03
  • 4. Irrigation volume by crop type
    Table: 38-10-0240-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Irrigation volume by month and crop type. The unit of measure is cubic metres.
    Release date: 2025-10-03
  • 5. Total area that received irrigation by crop type
    Table: 38-10-0241-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Total area that received irrigation by crop type, province and drainage region. The unit of measure is hectares.
    Release date: 2025-10-03
  • 6. Number of farms by irrigation status
    Table: 38-10-0242-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number of farms by irrigation status, province and drainage region.
    Release date: 2025-10-03
  • 7. Number of farms and percentage of irrigation water by water source
    Table: 38-10-0246-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number of farms and percentage of irrigation water by water source, province and drainage region.
    Release date: 2025-10-03
  • 8. Physical flows by final demand category
    Table: 38-10-0010-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Energy use (terajoules), greenhouse gas emissions (kilotonnes), and water use (cubic metres x 1,000) by category of final demand (Personal expenditure, non-profit institutions serving households' consumption expenditure, government net current expenditure, gross fixed capital formation, and international exports).
    Release date: 2025-02-06
  • 9. Public owners whose wastewater system needs to be upgraded to meet effluent quality standards of the Federal Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations
    Table: 34-10-0235-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Municipal owners whose wastewater system needs to be upgraded. Data are available for all provinces and territories, by urban and rural municipalities. Values are also available in numbers and percentages.
    Release date: 2025-02-04
  • 10. Physical flow account for water use
    Table: 38-10-0250-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Every 2 years
    Description: This table contains 92 series, with data starting from 2009 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada) Sector (92 items: Total, industries and households; Total, industries; Crop production; Animal production; ...).
    Release date: 2024-07-11
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Analysis (17) (0 to 10 of 17 results)

  • 1. Qualitative analysis of substances in the wastewater of Canadian cities January to December 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202517739281
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-06-26
  • 2. Statistical approaches for estimating industrial water intake in Canada
    Articles and reports: 16-001-M2025002
    Description: This paper investigates methods for predicting industrial water intake during the non-surveyed years of the Industrial Water Survey. Several statistical models at the national level were compared for their predictive accuracy.
    Release date: 2025-03-27
  • 3. Physical flow accounts: Water Use, 2019 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022087
    Description: Physical flow accounts (PFA) record the annual flows of natural resources, products and residuals between the Canadian economy and the environment. The Water Account describes the use of the natural resource input of water and of water accessed through municipal water supply or irrigation systems by industries, governments, institutions, and households.
    Release date: 2022-12-19
  • 4. Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 6, Clean Water and Sanitation
    Articles and reports: 11-637-X202200100006
    Description: As the sixth goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030. This 2022 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the sixth Sustainable Development Goal in support of clean water and sanitation, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.
    Release date: 2022-09-28
  • 5. Surface freshwater use in Canada’s manufacturing industry, 2017
    Articles and reports: 16-508-X2022001
    Description:

    This paper analyzes water use by three important manufacturing industries. These industries include the pulp and paper industry, the primary metal industry, and the petroleum and coal product industry.

    Release date: 2022-06-10
  • 6. Potable water use in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019022
    Description:

    This infographic presents results for total and residential, average daily per capita potable water use in Canada, from the 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 Biennial Drinking Water Plants Survey. The infographic displays the various uses of potable water produced by drinking water systems in the economy, which includes the residential sector. The infographic also presents the various possible uses of residential potable water.

    Release date: 2019-06-11
  • 7. Outdoor water use, 2015 Archived
    Stats in brief: 16-508-X2017002
    Description:

    This fact sheet looks at outdoor water use by Canadian households.

    Release date: 2017-07-21
  • 8. Treatment of drinking water by Canadian households, 2015 Archived
    Stats in brief: 16-508-X2017001
    Description:

    This fact sheet looks at the treatment of drinking water by Canadian households. This publication covers some water treatment techniques, the reasons provided by households to explain their behavior, and various characteristics of households that have a link with their tendency to treat water.

    Release date: 2017-05-01
  • 9. Source water quality, 2013 Archived
    Stats in brief: 16-508-X2015009
    Description:

    This fact sheet looks at the environmental quality of surface water sources prior to treatment using data from the 2013 Survey of Drinking Water Plants.

    Release date: 2015-12-18
  • 10. Uptake of water- and energy-conservation devices in the home Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-008-X201100111365
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    In society today, many Canadians are concerned about the environment and the scarcity of resources. Consequently, many individuals and governments are seeking ways to reduce or alter energy and water consumption patterns. This article uses data from the 2007 Households and the Environment Survey to examine the association between income, education, ownership, age of dwelling and years lived at the dwelling and the use of low-volume toilets; low-flow showerheads; compact fluorescent light bulbs; programmable thermostats; and appliances bought to save energy or water.

    Release date: 2010-12-07
Reference (2)

Reference (2) ((2 results))

  • 1. Agricultural Water Use Survey 2007, Methodology Report Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-001-M2009008
    Description:

    In 2008, Statistics Canada conducted the first Agricultural Water Use Survey. This pilot survey is part of the Canadian Environment Sustainability Indicators initiative and collects information on volumes of water used for irrigation, irrigated areas, irrigation practices and the quality of water used for agricultural purposes. This technical paper describes the methodology used for the pilot survey and includes recommendations for future cycles of the survey. The validation process seems to indicate that the method used to estimate the volumes of water used and the irrigated areas calculated underestimates the results. The report gives recommendations to minimize this bias in the next iterations of the survey. First, it is recommended to simplify the level of information collected by the survey; to review the sampling methodology; and to examine other means of collecting information on volumes of water used for irrigation. This pilot version of the survey remains a reliable source for consistent data on agricultural water use.

    Release date: 2009-06-26
  • 2. Watering Our Prairie Farms Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 96-328-M2004010
    Geography: Geographical region of Canada
    Description:

    This activity focuses on how water is used for irrigation, the benefits and risks associated with irrigation and the ways farmers manage their water use.

    Release date: 2004-08-30

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