Table 2
Outdoor water use, by province, 2005

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Provinces Households that watered their lawn and/or garden1 Households that watered their lawn2 Households that watered their garden3 Used a sprinkler timer4
percent
Newfoundland and Labrador 69 54 72 F
Prince Edward Island 63 18 77 F
Nova Scotia 68 36 79 14
New Brunswick 56 20 72 F
Quebec 71 40 81 26
Ontario 80 61 84 21
Manitoba 67 44 70 13
Saskatchewan 75 61 74 16
Alberta 75 64 78 21
British Columbia 79 61 83 35
Canada 76 54 81 23
1. As a percentage of households with lawns or gardens.
2. As a percentage of households with lawns.
3. As a percentage of households with gardens.
4. Includes only households that reported having a lawn or garden that was watered in the summer of 2005. Percentages do not include apartment building dwellers. 
Data source: Statistics Canada, Households and the Environment Survey, 2006.
Table source: Statistics Canada, 2007, EnviroStats, volume 1, number 2, "Canadian lawns and gardens: Where are they the 'greenest'?," catalogue number 16-002-XWE.