{
  "id": "water-use-per-person",
  "category": "Environment",
  "title": "Water used at home per person, Capital Region",
  "geography": "Communities served by the CRD’s regional water supply",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Regional (water supply)",
    "Households"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many litres of drinking water does each resident use at home in a day, on average?",
  "value": 216.5,
  "display_value": "216.5",
  "unit": "litres a day per person, 2024",
  "period": "Calendar year 2024",
  "period_start": "2024-01-01",
  "period_end": "2024-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": "Calendar year 2023",
    "previous_value": 231.1,
    "change_percent": -6.3
  },
  "trend": "improving",
  "direction_good": "down",
  "right_direction": "Lower use per person means less water drawn from the region’s supply.",
  "trend_basis": "216.5 litres a day per person in 2024 (2025 edition report), against 231.1 in 2023 as printed in the previous report (2024 edition). The latest report says use decreased by 17.6 litres from 2023, which would put 2023 at 234.1.",
  "since_text": "The CRD’s desired trend is lower use per person; it sets no number.",
  "caveats": [
    "Average residential use of drinking water per person, from the CRD’s Integrated Water Services, as printed in the CRD’s yearly growth strategy indicators report.",
    "The two reports do not agree on 2023: the earlier report prints 231.1 litres; the latest report’s change of 17.6 litres would make it 234.1. The earlier report’s own figure is used for the comparison, and both are shown here. Either way the use per person went down.",
    "Summer weather and watering rules move the figure from year to year."
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2023",
      "value": 231.1
    },
    {
      "period": "2024",
      "value": 216.5
    }
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Yearly (CRD growth strategy indicators report)",
  "source": {
    "name": "Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition)",
    "url": "https://www.crd.ca/programs-services/regional-planning/regional-growth-strategy",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
    "download_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
    "locator": "Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition), indicator “Residential water consumption”, “How are we doing?”",
    "reads": "The average residential water consumption has decreased from 2023 to 2024 by 17.6 litres daily per capita to a total of 216.5 litres daily per capita.",
    "earlier": {
      "period": "2023",
      "display": "231.1",
      "name": "Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2024 edition)",
      "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2024-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
      "page_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2024-rgs-indicators-reportpdf#page=19",
      "page": 19,
      "reads": "The average residential water consumption has increased from 2022 to 2023 by 7.2 litres daily per capita to a total of 231.1 litres daily per capita.",
      "published": "2025-03-07",
      "note": null
    },
    "page_url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf#page=19",
    "page": 19
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.crd.ca/disclaimer",
    "open": false
  },
  "verified_text": [
    "The average residential water consumption has decreased from 2023 to 2024 by 17.6 litres daily per capita to a total of 216.5 litres daily per capita.",
    "Target/Desired Trend Decrease per capita consumption of potable water.",
    "The average residential water consumption has increased from 2022 to 2023 by 7.2 litres daily per capita to a total of 231.1 litres daily per capita."
  ],
  "data_published": "2026-02-18",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T05:30:10Z",
  "attribution": "Source: Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition). Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.",
  "licence_type": "public",
  "source_tier": 1,
  "measure_kind": "outcome",
  "better_measure": null,
  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "The change is 6.3% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": {
      "period": "Calendar year 2023",
      "value": 231.1,
      "text": "vs 2023: -6.3%"
    },
    "five_year": null
  },
  "direction": {
    "type": "outcome",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "better",
    "label": "Better",
    "arrow": "▼",
    "rel": -6.3,
    "delta": null,
    "vs": "Calendar year 2023",
    "cur": "Calendar year 2024",
    "why": "The change is 6.3% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.",
    "change": "6.3%",
    "one_year": "−6.3%",
    "long_why": "The series starts in 2023, so there is no reading longer than one year yet."
  },
  "benchmark": {
    "rung": 5,
    "rung_name": "No target found",
    "as_of": "2026-11-12",
    "items": [
      {
        "kind": "none",
        "label": "No target found",
        "text": "No number found: the CRD’s growth strategy indicators report (2025 edition) gives the desired trend as lower use per person and sets no figure, as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Capital Regional District Board.",
        "area": "Capital Region",
        "source": {
          "title": "Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition, report for 2024)",
          "publisher": "Capital Regional District",
          "date": "2025",
          "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2025-rgs-indicators-reportpdf",
          "terms": "https://www.crd.ca/disclaimer",
          "refresh": "Yearly",
          "licence": "Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.",
          "checked": "2026-11-12",
          "key": "crd_rgs25",
          "page": 19
        },
        "documents_checked": null
      }
    ],
    "drawn": [],
    "rule": "Highest rung found is shown; the site never sets a target. Methods, Targets."
  },
  "benchmarks": [],
  "highest_rung": 5,
  "no_target_found": {
    "documents_checked": [
      "crd_rgs25"
    ],
    "checked_on": "2026-11-12",
    "who_could_set": [
      "The Capital Regional District Board"
    ]
  },
  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "CRD",
      "name": "Capital Regional District Board",
      "decides": "Runs the regional water supply service for most of Greater Victoria.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "crd2537",
          "label": "CRD Bylaw No. 2537, Water Supply Local Service Area Establishment Bylaw",
          "url": "https://www.crd.ca/media/file/2537-water-supply-local-service-area-establishment-bylaw-no-1-1997b"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "NONE",
      "name": "No government decides this directly",
      "note": "Households decide how much water they use."
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "Capital Regional District Board",
  "label_1y": {
    "key": "better",
    "label": "Better"
  },
  "label_long": null,
  "target_line": {
    "form": 4,
    "text": "No target found",
    "target": null,
    "gap": null,
    "comparison": null,
    "applies_here": false,
    "note": null
  }
}