Water use in Metro Vancouver
Amount of water per day used by a Metro Vancouver resident.
What are 384 L of water? That is about 1, 536 glasses of water.
Cholera, typhoid, polio and dysentery.
What are diseases transmitted by contaminated drinking water?
This household activity uses more water per minute than taking a shower. (hint: outside)
What is watering the lawn/grass?
This country has more than 2 million lakes and more the rest of the world combined.
What is Canada? Fun Fact: Almost 10% of Canada's total surface is covered with freshwater.
There is no scientific evidence to drink these many glasses of water per day.
What is "8 glasses of water per day". Hydration varies on the individual.
Metro Vancouver's drinking water sources.
What are the Capilano, Seymour and Coquitlam watersheds?
1.7 billion people
How many people in the world use a drinking water source contaminated with feces?
It takes almost 5000 litres of water to make just one of these every day fast foods.
What is a hamburger?
This sea is so salty that people can float effortlessly on its surface.
What is the Dead Sea? Fun Fact: Little Lake Manitou in Saskatchewan is Canada's "Dead Sea" - allowing you to float effortlessly having therapeutic benefits from the high mineral concentrations!
This type of water is always safer than tap water.
What is bottled water? Not true, in countries like Canada, tap water is very safe to drink. Clearbrook, Abbotsford has won international gold medal for best tap water 7x!
Top three uses of water in Metro Vancouver.
What are flushing the toilet (24%), taking a shower (20%) and running faucets (19%)?
Poor management of urban, industrial, and agricultural wastewater.
What causes inadequate clean drinking water?
This item of clothing takes between 7500 and 10 000 litres of water to produce one pair.
What are JEANS?
This country gets almost 100% of its electricity from hydro power and geothermal water.
What is Iceland? Fun Fact: According to Stats Canada, about 60% of Canada's electricity comes from water (BC, Quebec, and Manitoba).
These use tremendous amounts of water to stay cool.
What are AI DATA CENTRES? A medium sized data centre uses about the same amount of the consumption of 5000 Canadians daily water consumption.
Three tips for using less water.
What are shortening your shower, turning off the tap while brushing your teeth, running full loads of laundry/dishes?
Climate change, water scarcity, population growth and urbanization.
What are the biggest challenges for supplying clean drinking water to people?
A cotton T-shirt and a pair of jeans need this much water to produce.
What are 20 000 litres of water?
Only the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United States (USA) use/consume more water than this country.
What is CANADA? Too shocking for a fun fact.
This task uses enough water to fill several backyard pools every day.
What is TRAINING Large AI models?
May, June, July & August
Which months might Metro Vancouver experience water shortages due to Climate Change?
2.5%
What percentage of the Earth's water is freshwater?
This sector uses up to 70% of the world's freshwater.
What is AGRICULTURE?
This country consistently ranks #1 in most bottled water consumption per capita - largely due to the lack of trust in tap water quality.
What is Mexico? Fun Fact: You can drink the tap water almost anywhere in Canada and it is of excellent quality, considered some of the safest in the world.
In 2025, UBC researchers launched its first waterless invention for "the porcelain throne".
What is TOILET? UBC researchers created a mushroom-powered waterless toilet.