During the fiscal year 2022, approximately 0.33 megaliters of water were consumed per household in the Northern Territory, the highest per household consumption in Australia. In the same year, households in Victoria consumed around 0.16 megaliters of water on average. 

Household spend on water services

The expenditure on water per kiloliter in Australia remained fairly stable between 2015 and 2022. The household expenditure on distributed water and wastewater services was relatively evenly split. While per household consumption was highest in the Northern Territory, the overall household expenditure on water services was the greatest in New South Wales, likely due to the size of its population.

Sources and usage

The leading water source in Australia is surface water, followed by groundwater, with just a small portion sourced from desalination plants. Water is a limited resource in most of Australia, due to its dry climate and the fact that the largest part of the country is desert or semi-arid. While household consumption of water is an important consideration, when looking at the distribution of water usage in Australia, the majority is used by the agriculture industry.

The average person in England and Wales used roughly *** liters of water per day as of 2024. This means that a household of four could potentially use more than *** liters of water a day. Portsmouth Water customers had the highest daily water usage in England and Wales in 2023, at *** liters per person. Metered and un-metered water usage The amount of water consumed by households can vary depending on whether the customer has a water meter installed. On average, households in England and Wales with a water meter consumed around ** liters less per person than those without a water meter. While most homes have traditional water meters, smart water meters have been rolled out since 2016. These allow customers to track water usage, save money, and allow water companies to detect leaks. What uses the most water in UK homes? The average water consumption of household appliances varies greatly, with some using significantly more than others. A full bath uses the largest amount of water by far, at approximately ** liters. This is ** liters more than the average washing machine cycle. Meanwhile, a dishwasher on an eco-setting can noticeably reduce water consumption when compared with a regular cycle.

This statistic displays an estimation of the average per capita household water use in the United States in 2014 with a breakdown by select city. As of this time, single-family households used approximately ** gallons of water per capita per day.

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China Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential data was reported at 188.799 l in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 184.732 l for 2022. China Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential data is updated yearly, averaging 178.638 l from Dec 1978 (Median) to 2023, with 46 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 220.240 l in 2000 and a record low of 120.600 l in 1978. China Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Utility Sector – Table CN.RCA: Water Consumption: Daily per Capita: Residential.

Potable water use by sector and average daily use for Canada, provinces and territories.

Data on average daily household and per person water usage across the U.S. in 2025.

Portsmouth Water customers consumed the most water per person per day in England and Wales in financial year 2024, at ***** liters. This was higher than their three-year rolling average of ***** liters per person per day. Nevertheless, Affinity Water is still the company with the highest three-year rolling average at *** liters per person per day.

🌊 Global Water Consumption Dataset - Column Description 💧

📌 About the Dataset:

This dataset provides insights into global water consumption trends, focusing on agriculture, industrial, and household water usage across different countries over multiple years. 🌎

It helps in analyzing water scarcity levels, groundwater depletion rates, and the impact of rainfall on water availability. ☔💦

🗂️ Column Description:

✅ Cleaned Data:

• Duplicate entries for the same Country-Year combination have been removed. 🗑️
• Aggregation was done by taking the mean of numeric values for consistency. 📊

​Monthly residential water consumption grouped by zip code and customer class.

One of the largest conventional oil reservoirs in the United States, the Permian Basin, is becoming one of the world’s largest continuous oil and gas producing reservoirs. Continuous, or horizontal well drilling techniques extract oil and gas by directionally drilling and hydraulically fracturing the surrounding reservoir rock. The continuous extraction of oil and gas using hydraulic fracturing requires large volumes of water, and estimates of the total water volume used in the Continuous Oil and Gas (COG) extraction technique, requires a comprehensive assessment to determine the amount of water needed to extract reservoir resources. This data release contains the input and output files utilized for the assessment of water usage associated with continuous oil production in the Permian Basin. All data points that met the filtering criteria as described in the child item Data Processing

Residential per capita water use is a metric representing an individual’s share of a community’s average daily residential water needs

As included in the EnviroAtlas, the community level domestic water use is calculated using locally available water use data per capita in gallons of water per day (GPD), distributed dasymetrically, and summarized by census block group. Domestic water use, as defined in this case, is intended to represent residential indoor and outdoor water use (e.g., cooking hygiene, landscaping, pools, etc.) for primary residences (i.e., excluding second homes and tourism rentals). For the purposes of this metric, these publicly-supplied estimates are also applied and considered representative of local self-supplied water use. Local use data, as prepared for several cities for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning and at the county level by USGS, were used. Within the Chicago study area, the 1998-2010 average estimates ranged from 33 to 196 GPD. This dataset was produced by the U.S. EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets).

Tunisia Water Consumption: Household data was reported at 340.600 Cub m mn in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 333.000 Cub m mn for 2015. Tunisia Water Consumption: Household data is updated yearly, averaging 231.550 Cub m mn from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2016, with 22 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 340.600 Cub m mn in 2016 and a record low of 154.600 Cub m mn in 1995. Tunisia Water Consumption: Household data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Statistics Institute. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Tunisia – Table TN.RB010: Water Statistics.

Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Shanghai data was reported at 210.898 l in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 207.038 l for 2022. Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Shanghai data is updated yearly, averaging 210.898 l from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2023, with 29 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 361.680 l in 2004 and a record low of 174.830 l in 2010. Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Shanghai data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Utility Sector – Table CN.RCA: Water Consumption: Daily per Capita: Residential.

October 31, 2025 (Final DWR Data)

The 2018 Legislation required DWR to provide or otherwise identify data regarding the unique local conditions to support the calculation of an urban water use objective (CWC 10609. (b)(2) (C)). The urban water use objective (UWUO) is an estimate of aggregate efficient water use for the previous year based on adopted water use efficiency standards and local service area characteristics for that year.

UWUO is calculated as the sum of efficient indoor residential water use, efficient outdoor residential water use, efficient outdoor irrigation of landscape areas with dedicated irrigation meter for Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional (CII) water use, efficient water losses, and an estimated water use in accordance with variances, as appropriate. Details of urban water use objective calculations can be obtained from DWR’s Recommendations for Guidelines and Methodologies document (Recommendations for Guidelines and Methodologies for Calculating Urban Water Use Objective - https://water.ca.gov/-/media/DWR-Website/Web-Pages/Programs/Water-Use-And-Efficiency/2018-Water-Conservation-Legislation/Performance-Measures/UWUO_GM_WUES-DWR-2021-01B_COMPLETE.pdf).

The datasets provided in the links below enable urban retail water suppliers calculate efficient outdoor water uses (both residential and CII), agricultural variances, variances for significant uses of water for dust control for horse corals, and temporary provisions for water use for existing pools (as stated in Water Boards’ draft regulation). DWR will provide technical assistance for estimating the remaining UWUO components, as needed. Data for calculating outdoor water uses include:

• Reference evapotranspiration (ETo) – ETo is evaporation plant and soil surface plus transpiration through the leaves of standardized grass surfaces over which weather stations stand. Standardization of the surfaces is required because evapotranspiration (ET) depends on combinations of several factors, making it impractical to take measurements under all sets of conditions. Plant factors, known as crop coefficients (Kc) or landscape coefficients (KL), are used to convert ETo to actual water use by specific crop/plant. The ETo data that DWR provides to urban retail water suppliers for urban water use objective calculation purposes is derived from the California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) program (https://cimis.water.ca.gov/). CIMIS is a network of over 150 automated weather stations throughout the state that measure weather data that are used to estimate ETo. CIMIS also provides daily maps of ETo at 2-km grid using the Spatial CIMIS modeling approach that couples satellite data with point measurements. The ETo data provided below for each urban retail water supplier is an area weighted average value from the Spatial CIMIS ETo.

• Effective precipitation (Peff) - Peff is the portion of total precipitation which becomes available for plant growth. Peff is affected by soil type, slope, land cover type, and intensity and duration of rainfall. DWR is using a soil water balance model, known as Cal-SIMETAW, to estimate daily Peff at 4-km grid and an area weighted average value is calculated at the service area level. Cal-SIMETAW is a model that was developed by UC Davis and DWR and it is widely used to quantify agricultural, and to some extent urban, water uses for the publication of DWR’s Water Plan Update. Peff from Cal-SIMETAW is capped at 25% of total precipitation to account for potential uncertainties in its estimation. Daily Peff at each grid point is aggregated to produce weighted average annual or seasonal Peff at the service area level. The total precipitation that Cal-SIMETAW uses to estimate Peff comes from the Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM), which is a climate mapping model developed by the PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University.

• Residential Landscape Area Measurement (LAM) – The 2018 Legislation required DWR to provide each urban retail water supplier with data regarding the area of residential irrigable lands in a manner that can reasonably be applied to the standards (CWC 10609.6.(b)). DWR delivered the LAM data to all retail water suppliers, and a tabular summary of selected data types will be provided here. The data summary that is provided in this file contains irrigable-irrigated (II), irrigable-not-irrigated (INI), and not irrigable (NI) irrigation status classes, as well as horse corral areas (HCL_area), agricultural areas (Ag_area), and pool areas (Pool_area) for all retail suppliers.

This dataset contain per capita water consumption In Saudi regions during the period 2009-2018. Data from General Authority for Statistics. Follow datasource.kapsarc.org for timely data to advance energy economics research.*The Per Capita Average Daily Use Of Water Is Calculated As Follows:Total quantity consumed by municipal sector (liter)/population*365

Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Beijing data was reported at 167.264 l in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 163.221 l for 2022. Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Beijing data is updated yearly, averaging 187.520 l from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2023, with 29 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 281.840 l in 1998 and a record low of 152.910 l in 2005. Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Beijing data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The data is categorized under China Premium Database’s Utility Sector – Table CN.RCA: Water Consumption: Daily per Capita: Residential.

Water usage per person in Scotland is the highest in the United Kingdom on average, at *** liters. This is noticeably more than in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, where less than *** liters is used per person per day on average.

This dataset provides the average (annual, winter, summer) residential metered water consumption (2016) within 400 m x 400m hexagons (approximately two city blocks) provided in m3/month for the City of Edmonton. Average monthly residential winter water consumption is the average consumption of the following months: January, February, March, April, October, November and December. Average monthly residential summer water consumption is the average consumption of the following months: May, June, July, August and September.

Only those hexagons that contain at least ten accounts are illustrated to ensure customer privacy.

Residential consumption refers to water used primarily for domestic purposes, where no more than four separate dwelling units are metered by a single water meter.

Thematic mapping is based on the following ranges:

0-10 m3/month – orange 10-20 m3/month – green 20-30 m3/month – purple 30-35 m3/month – blue 35-60 m3/month – red 60 m3/month and up – maroon