Water use in Canada
The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The water use in Canada indicator provides information about the volumes and proportions of water that are withdrawn, consumed and returned for all of Canada and divided by its five regions for seven of Canada's key economic sectors: thermal power generation, manufacturing, residential, commercial & institutional, irrigation (agriculture), mining and oil & gas. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for the data sources and details on how the data were collected and how the indicator was calculated. Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators
- Publisher
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Resources
- 38
- Catalogue metadata updated
- 2025-04-15
Data overview
- Formats
- CSV, HTML
- File languages
- English, French
- Available actions
- 34 loadable resources
Official sources and licences
Resources
- Variation in water withdrawals by the most water-intensive sectors in Atlantic provinces, 2011 to 2021 - English (csv; 966 B) (English) CSV
- Variation in water withdrawals by the most water-intensive sectors in Atlantic provinces, 2011 to 2021-French (csv; 1.3 kB) (French) CSV
- Variation in water withdrawals by the most water-intensive sectors in Ontario, 2011 to 2021 - English (csv; 1.0 kB) (English) CSV
- Variation in water withdrawals by the most water-intensive sectors in Ontario, 2011 to 2021 - French (csv; 1.3 kB) (French) CSV
- Variation in water withdrawals by the most water-intensive sectors in Prairie provinces, 2011 to 2021 - English (csv; 1 kB) (English) CSV
- Variation in water withdrawals by the most water-intensive sectors in Prairie provinces, 2011 to 2021 - French (csv; 1.4 kB) (French) CSV
- Variation in water withdrawals by the most water-intensive sectors in Quebec, 2011 to 2021 - English (csv; 969 B) (English) CSV
- Variation in water withdrawals by the most water-intensive sectors in Quebec, 2011 to 2021 - French (csv; 1.2kB) (French) CSV
- Variation in water withdrawals by the most water-intensive sectors in the British Columbia and the Territories, 2011 to 2021 - English (csv; 1 kB) (English) CSV
- Variation in water withdrawals by the most water-intensive sectors in the British Columbia and the Territories, 2011 to 2021 - French (csv; 1.3 kB) (French) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by sector in Canada, 2021 - English (csv; 1.3 kB) (English) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by sector in Canada, 2021 - French (csv; 1.7 kB) (French) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by the most water-intensive sectors in Atlantic provinces, 2021 - English (csv; 930 B) (English) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by the most water-intensive sectors in Atlantic provinces, 2021 - French (csv; 1.3 kB) (French) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by the most water-intensive sectors in Ontario, 2021 - English (csv; 971 B) (English) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by the most water-intensive sectors in Ontario, 2021 - French (csv; 1.3 kB) (French) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by the most water-intensive sectors in Prairie provinces, 2021 - English (csv; 956 B) (English) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by the most water-intensive sectors in Prairie provinces, 2021 - French (csv; 1.2 kB) (French) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by the most water-intensive sectors in Quebec, 2021 - English (csv; 906 B) (English) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by the most water-intensive sectors in Quebec, 2021 - French (csv; 1.1 kB) (French) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by the most water-intensive sectors in the British Columbia and the Territories, 2021 - English (csv; 945 B) (English) CSV
- Water consumed and returned by the most water-intensive sectors in the British Columbia and the Territories, 2021 - French (csv; 1.2 kB) (French) CSV
- Water wihdrawn by sector in Canada, 2005 to 2021 - French (csv;2.1 kB) (French) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in Atlantic provinces, 2021 - English (csv; 943 B) (English) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in Atlantic provinces, 2021 - French (csv; 943 B) (French) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in British Columbia and the Territories, 2021 - English (csv; 1.1 kB) (English) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in British Columbia and the Territories, 2021 - French (csv; 1.4 kB) (French) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in Canada, 2005 to 2021 - English (CSV; 1,7 kB) (English) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in Ontario, 2021 - English (csv; 1 kB) (English) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in Ontario, 2021 - French (csv; 2 kB) (French) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in Prairie provinces, 2021 - English (csv; 1.1 kB) (English) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in Prairie provinces, 2021 - French (csv; 1.4 kB) (French) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in Quebec, 2021 - English (csv; 1 kB) (English) CSV
- Water withdrawn by sector in Quebec, 2021 - French (csv; 1.3 kB) (French) CSV
- Data sources and methods - English (English, HTML) HTML
- Data sources and methods - French (French, HTML) HTML
- Water use in Canada - English (English, HTML) HTML
- Water use in Canada - French (French, HTML) HTML