Victoria indicatorsWater used at home per person
216.5 litres a day
No target found. Who could set one: The Capital Regional District Board. Targets and comparisons
Down 6.3% in a year.
Source: Capital Regional District. We read it on Nov 12, 2026.
Over time
2024 Litres a day, by year
- 216.5 litres
Targets and comparisons
No target found
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.
Source: Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition, report for 2024), Capital Regional District, 2025, page 19. Area: Capital Region. Updated: Yearly. Licence: Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.
Show the numbers as a table
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 216.5 litres |
| 2023 | 231.1 litres |
Who decides
Capital Regional District Board. Runs the regional water supply service for most of Greater Victoria. CRD Bylaw No. 2537, Water Supply Local Service Area Establishment Bylaw
Show the law and the dates
| Body | What it decides | Law or bylaw |
|---|---|---|
| Capital Regional District Board | Runs the regional water supply service for most of Greater Victoria. | CRD Bylaw No. 2537, Water Supply Local Service Area Establishment Bylaw |
No government decides this directly. Households decide how much water they use.
Each row says what a body decides and links to the law, order or bylaw that gives it that role. It does not say who caused a change: markets, households and other governments also move these numbers. Who decides what, for every measure · How we choose
What this number does not show
- 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.
One more limit
- 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.
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In plain words
Average residential use of drinking water per person per day, from the CRD’s regional water supply, as printed in the CRD’s growth strategy report.
How we decide “Better”
The change is 6.3% of the earlier value, at or above the 5% threshold.
Lower use per person means less water drawn from the region’s supply. 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.
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. The rule.
All notes on this number
Why it matters. Using less water per person delays the need for new supply as the region grows.
- 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.
Which places
Area: Capital Region
The Capital Regional District: 13 municipalities and 3 electoral areas, including the Southern Gulf Islands and Salt Spring Island.
Included
- The 13 municipalities: Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, View Royal, Langford, Colwood, Highlands, Metchosin, Sooke, Central Saanich, North Saanich, Sidney
- The 3 electoral areas: Juan de Fuca (including East Sooke, Jordan River and Port Renfrew), Salt Spring Island, and the Southern Gulf Islands (Galiano, Mayne, Pender and Saturna)
- First Nations reserve lands within the region
Not included
- Communities north of the Malahat, such as the Cowichan Valley, Duncan and Nanaimo
Official definition
- Capital Regional District: About the CRD
- Statistics Canada: Capital census division (5917), 2021 list of areas
How the agency describes it: Communities served by the CRD’s regional water supply.
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own document and refuses to show it unless the expected text is found.
Licence and credits
This figure is public but not under an open licence: the agency publishes it for anyone to read, and it is shown here with credit and a link to the agency’s terms. About licences.
- Licence
- Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
- Updated by agency
- Yearly (CRD growth strategy indicators report); latest release Feb 18, 2026
- Retrieved
- Nov 12, 2026, 10:30 PM B.C. time
Source: Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition). Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.
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