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.

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 61 gallons of water per capita per day.

This statistic displays the average volume of water consumed per day in the average household in California in 2011. During this year, the average household in California used 31 gallons daily for laundry.

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.

A single member household uses an average of 54 cubic meters of water annually in the United Kingdom. This figure almost doubled when there were two members per household and increased to approximately 191 cubic meters within a household of five. In terms of daily use, a single person household used an estimated 149 liters per day, with water usage amounting to 276 liters per day when two people lived at home. Baths consume the most water There are many household appliances that use water, such as dishwashers, washing machines or toilets, and each uses varying amounts. However, it is baths that use the largest quantity. On average, a bath consumes 80 liters of water per use. In comparison, a shower uses 46 liters per use. Household water bills The average household water bill in the UK differs from company to company. In 2018, customers of water supply and sewerage utility Wessex Water paid on average 245 British pounds for their water bill. This was the most expensive in the UK. Water bills were on average cheapest for customers of Southern Water, at an estimated 158 British pounds. Southern Water covers areas of East Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

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

CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Hainan data was reported at 304.646 l in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 287.037 l for 2022. CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Hainan data is updated yearly, averaging 266.620 l from Dec 1996 (Median) to 2023, with 28 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 337.850 l in 2005 and a record low of 197.606 l in 2018. CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Hainan 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.

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CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Shaanxi data was reported at 153.623 l in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 162.504 l for 2022. CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Shaanxi data is updated yearly, averaging 163.322 l from Dec 1996 (Median) to 2023, with 28 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 208.640 l in 1996 and a record low of 131.600 l in 2006. CN: Water Consumption: City: Daily per Capita: Residential: Shaanxi 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.

Portsmouth Water customers consumed the most water per person per day in England and Wales in financial year 2024, at 154.4 liters. This was higher than their three-year rolling average of 149.3 liters per person per day. Nevertheless, Affinity Water is still the company with the highest three-year rolling average at 154 liters per person per day.

The map shows total municipal needs by province and territory. Domestic water consumption includes the quantity of water used for household purposes such as washing, food preparation, and bathing. Across Canada, nearly all of the water used by municipal water systems comes from lakes and rivers the remainder (12% of the total) comes from groundwater. Establishing and maintaining water systems is costly. There are three major costs: water supply, infrastructure maintenance, and administration. Water prices across Canada are generally low compared to other countries. Monthly bills range between $15 and $90, the lowest being in Quebec, Newfoundland, and British Columbia, and the highest in the Prairie Provinces and northern Canada. Although water usage rates vary across Canada, the overall per capita use is very high compared to that of other industrialized countries. Only the United States has higher rates of municipal water usage.

A family in Flanders consists of an average of 2.3 people in 2022. This average family has an average tap water consumption of 70 m3 per year or 84 liters per person per day.

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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.

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

This is data analyzing the monthly average water supply by household number for household water supply in Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do from January 2000 to July 2021. Main items include year, month, number of households, amount of use, adjusted amount of use, and data base date. This data allows us to understand the long-term changes in household water use and seasonal consumption patterns in Chuncheon-si by household, and can be used as basic data useful for administrative and research purposes such as analysis of changes in average water supply per household, demand forecasting, efficient water resource distribution, rate system reform, and establishment of household water supply policy.

Water usage per person in Scotland is the highest in the United Kingdom on average, at 165 liters. This is noticeably more than in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, where less than 150 liters is used per person per day on average.

Daily household (domestic) water consumption per person within the jurisdiction of Taipei Water Works Office

Average and Median Domestic Metered Public Water Consumption

This data release contains the input-data files and R scripts associated with the analysis presented in [citation of manuscript]. The spatial extent of the data is the contiguous U.S. The input-data files include one comma separated value (csv) file of county-level data, and one csv file of city-level data. The county-level csv (“county_data.csv”) contains data for 3,109 counties. This data includes two measures of water use, descriptive information about each county, three grouping variables (climate region, urban class, and economic dependency), and contains 18 explanatory variables: proportion of population growth from 2000-2010, fraction of withdrawals from surface water, average daily water yield, mean annual maximum temperature from 1970-2010, 2005-2010 maximum temperature departure from the 40-year maximum, mean annual precipitation from 1970-2010, 2005-2010 mean precipitation departure from the 40-year mean, Gini income disparity index, percent of county population with at least some college education, Cook Partisan Voting Index, housing density, median household income, average number of people per household, median age of structures, percent of renters, percent of single family homes, percent apartments, and a numeric version of urban class. The city-level csv (city_data.csv) contains data for 83 cities. This data includes descriptive information for each city, water-use measures, one grouping variable (climate region), and 6 explanatory variables: type of water bill (increasing block rate, decreasing block rate, or uniform), average price of water bill, number of requirement-oriented water conservation policies, number of rebate-oriented water conservation policies, aridity index, and regional price parity. The R scripts construct fixed-effects and Bayesian Hierarchical regression models. The primary difference between these models relates to how they handle possible clustering in the observations that define unique water-use settings. Fixed-effects models address possible clustering in one of two ways. In a "fully pooled" fixed-effects model, any clustering by group is ignored, and a single, fixed estimate of the coefficient for each covariate is developed using all of the observations. Conversely, in an unpooled fixed-effects model, separate coefficient estimates are developed only using the observations in each group. A hierarchical model provides a compromise between these two extremes. Hierarchical models extend single-level regression to data with a nested structure, whereby the model parameters vary at different levels in the model, including a lower level that describes the actual data and an upper level that influences the values taken by parameters in the lower level. The county-level models were compared using the Watanabe-Akaike information criterion (WAIC) which is derived from the log pointwise predictive density of the models and can be shown to approximate out-of-sample predictive performance. All script files are intended to be used with R statistical software (R Core Team (2017). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL https://www.R-project.org) and Stan probabilistic modeling software (Stan Development Team. 2017. RStan: the R interface to Stan. R package version 2.16.2. http://mc-stan.org).