Table A.2
Selected statistics on water supply and demand by drainage region

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Table A.2
Selected statistics on water supply and demand by drainage region
Table summary
This table displays the results of Selected statistics on water supply and demand by drainage region code, Population, 1971, Population, 2011, Density, 1971, Density, 2011, Water use, 2013, Surface freshwater intake, 2013, Average annual water yield, 1971 to 2013, Water yield per area, 1971 to 2013, Water yield variability index,1971 to 2013 and Average annual evapotranspiration, 1981 to 2010, calculated using persons, persons/km2, million m3, km3, m3/m2 and monthly CV units of measure (appearing as column headers).
code Population, 1971 Population, 2011 Density, 1971 Density, 2011 Water use, 2013Table A.2 Note 1 Surface freshwater intake, 2013Table A.2 Note 1 Average annual water yield, 1971 to 2013Table A.2 Note 2 Water yield per area, 1971 to 2013Table A.2 Note 2 Water yield variability index,Table A.2 Note 3 1971 to 2013 Average annual evapotranspiration, 1981 to 2010Table A.2 Note 4
persons persons/km2 million m3 km3 m3/m2 monthly CV m3/m2
Canada Note ...: not applicable 21,568,311 33,476,688 2.4 3.8 37,892 33,464.7 3,478.2 0.35 1.05 0.23
Pacific Coastal 1 913,522 1,505,007 2.9 4.7 Note .: not available for any reference period 617.3 510.2 1.53 0.50 0.26
Fraser–Lower Mainland 2 971,762 2,336,941 4.3 10.4 Note .: not available for any reference period 615.3 129.3 0.55 0.83 0.33
Okanagan–Similkameen 3 118,507 327,548 7.9 21.8 Note .: not available for any reference period 148.3 4.3 0.27 1.44 0.41
Columbia 4 132,952 160,896 1.6 1.9 Note .: not available for any reference period 190.7 67.9 0.78 1.04 0.41
Yukon 5 16,984 32,280 0.1 0.1 Note .: not available for any reference period 12.5 106.0 0.32 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.14
Peace–Athabasca 6 206,361 406,303 0.4 0.9 Note .: not available for any reference period 297.3 99.5 0.21 1.01 0.31
Lower Mackenzie 7 34,283 52,844 0.0 0.0 Note .: not available for any reference period 10.7 246.3 0.19 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.17
Arctic Coast–Islands 8 7,655 20,133 0.0 0.0 Note .: not available for any reference period 1.3 231.3 0.13 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.11
Missouri 9 15,328 8,439 0.6 0.3 Note .: not available for any reference period 20.2 0.5 0.02 2.14 0.33
North Saskatchewan 10 841,004 1,559,613 5.9 10.9 Note .: not available for any reference period 947.4 10.4 0.07 1.04 0.34
South Saskatchewan 11 949,194 2,168,447 5.5 12.7 Note .: not available for any reference period 1,942.3 10.3 0.06 1.10 0.34
Assiniboine–Red 12 1,248,357 1,464,936 6.9 8.1 Note .: not available for any reference period 1,522.4 8.4 0.04 2.49 0.39
Winnipeg 13 82,806 82,775 1.0 1.0 Note .: not available for any reference period 131.8 25.9 0.24 0.87 0.40
Lower Saskatchewan–Nelson 14 238,535 216,586 0.8 0.7 Note .: not available for any reference period 70.8 51.7 0.14 0.92 0.32
Churchill 15 63,418 94,292 0.2 0.4 Note .: not available for any reference period 7.7 51.0 0.16 0.75 0.24
Keewatin–Southern Baffin Island 16 7,034 13,968 0.0 0.0 Note .: not available for any reference period 3.2 192.0 0.20 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.13
Northern Ontario 17 148,658 134,355 0.2 0.2 Note .: not available for any reference period 106.0 199.2 0.29 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.31
Northern Quebec 18 90,953 109,239 0.1 0.1 Note .: not available for any reference period 30.1 516.3 0.55 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.18
Great Lakes 19 6,632,154 11,287,184 32.2 54.7 Note .: not available for any reference period 23,461.0 133.3 0.42 0.72 0.48
Ottawa 20 1,183,662 1,957,937 9.0 14.9 Note .: not available for any reference period 364.9 64.3 0.44 0.80 0.47
St. Lawrence 21 4,941,807 6,583,552 45.0 59.9 Note .: not available for any reference period 2,045.2 72.3 0.61 0.76 0.39
North Shore–Gaspé 22 518,844 508,869 1.6 1.5 Note .: not available for any reference period 203.2 290.4 0.79 0.91 0.27
Saint John–St. Croix 23 366,251 413,581 9.1 10.3 Note .: not available for any reference period 174.6 29.8 0.71 0.89 0.48
Maritime Coastal 24 1,318,163 1,515,262 11.4 13.1 Note .: not available for any reference period 202.5 103.6 0.85 1.03 0.47
Newfoundland–Labrador 25 520,117 515,698 1.6 1.6 Note .: not available for any reference period 338.1 324.2 0.85 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 0.23
Newfoundland (Island)Table A.2 Note 5 Note ...: not applicable 493,938 487,808 5.1 5.0 Note .: not available for any reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period 125.6 1.13 0.62 0.34
. not available for any reference period
.. not available for a specific reference period
... not applicable
Note 1.

Total water use for Canada is taken from the Water Use Account. It is the amount of water withdrawn from water resources to support society in both the economic and residential sectors. Water withdrawals are also referred to as water intake. These estimates include water loss and leakages through water treatment and distribution systems. They exclude the use of water for hydro-electricity production. Surface freshwater intake aggregates data from the Survey of Drinking Water Plants, 2013 and the Industrial Water Use Survey, 2013, with estimates of agricultural water use for 2013 based on the Agricultural Water Use Survey and the Alberta Irrigation Information report. Withdrawals from groundwater, groundwater under the influence of surface water and marine water sources are excluded. Data for water use by the oil and gas industry and households not supplied by a public water provider are also excluded.

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Note 2.

The water yield estimates are 42-year annual averages (1971 to 2013), with the exception of estimates for drainage region 1, which is based on 41 years of data (1971 to 2012); drainage regions 5, 7, 17 and 18 and portions of 8, 16 and 25 (Labrador), which are based on 20 years of data (1976 to 1995); and portions of drainage region 8 and 16, which are based on a 23-year average (1972 to 1994) for the Arctic Archipelago (Spence and Burke, 2008). For equivalences: 1 km3 is equal to 1 billion m3.

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Note 3.

Variability is measured by using a coefficient of variation (CV) that allows the comparison of all months in all years of the 42-year time period. The CV of the water yield data is a measure of the dispersion or variation in the monthly yield values over the period 1971 to 2013. It is defined as the ratio of the standard deviation of the monthly values to the mean. A higher CV indicates that the monthly data are more variable from year to year. The CV for the Pacific Coastal drainage region is for the period 1971 to 2012. The CV was not calculated for drainage regions 5,7,8,16, 17, 18 and the Labrador portion of 25.

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Note 4.

Evapotranspiration is taken from a dataset providing estimates of actual evapotranspiration at a 1 km resolution, which is modeled by integrating remote sensing land surface data and gridded climate data. Data exclude the Great Lakes.

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Note 5.

Data for Newfoundland (Island) are disaggregated from the Newfoundland–Labrador drainage region because data on the variability index, monthly water yield and trends in water yield over time are only available for this portion of the region.

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Note: The water yield and evapotranspiration statistics are provided to allow comparisons across regions. They are not intended to be used for the purposes of a water budget.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Environment, Energy and Transportation Statistics Division, 2017, special tabulation from the 1971 and 2011 Censuses of Population; Statistics Canada, CANSIM Table 153-0116 (accessed February 9, 2017); Industrial Water Use Survey, 2013; Survey of Drinking Water Plants, 2013; Agricultural Water Use Survey, 2010, 2012 and 2014; Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, 2014, Alberta Irrigation Information: Facts and Figures for the Year 2013, Basin Water Management Branch; Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2015, Water Survey of Canada, Archived Hydrometric Data (HYDAT), (accessed December 3, 2016); Spence, C. and A. Burke, 2008, “Estimates of Canadian Arctic Archipelago runoff from observed hydrometric data,” Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 362, pp. 247–259; Wang, S., Y. Yang, Y. Luo and A. Rivera, 2013, "Spatial and seasonal variations in evapotranspiration over Canada's landmass," Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 3561–3575, doi: 10.5194/hess-17-3561-2013.
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