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Annex C
C.1
Water resource characteristics by major river basin
Source: Statistics Canada. 2003. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 0000316-201-XIE, p. 8
C.2
Population characteristics by major river basin, 1971 to 2001
Source: Statistics Canada. 2003. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 0000316-201-XIE, p.9
C.3
Groundwater use in Canada, 1996
Source: Statistics Canada. 2003. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 0000316-201-XIE, p.25
C.4
Major water withdrawal uses of water, 1981, 1986, 1991, and 1996
Source: Statistics Canada. 2003. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 0000316-201-XIE, p.12
C.5
Water use in the agriculture industry by province, 1996
Source: Statistics Canada. 2003. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 0000316-201-XIE, p.14
C.6
Streamflow and Surface Fresh Water Intake, by Drainage Area
| Drainage area1 | Streamflow2 (km3)
| Surface Fresh Water Intake (million m3) | Intake as share of streamflow (%) | |||
| Municipal3 | Industrial4 | Agricultural5 | Total | |||
| Pacific Coastal and Yukon | 596 | 193 | 598 | 79 | 869 | 0.15 |
| Fraser - Lower Mainland | 125 | 429 | 220 | 468 | 1,116 | 0.89 |
| Columbiaand Okanagan - Similkameen | 66 | 72 | 109 | 228 | 409 | 0.62 |
| Peace - Athabasca | 92 | 28 | 170 | 22 | 219 | 0.24 |
| Lower Mackenzie and Arctic Coast - Islands | 507 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0.00 |
| North Saskatchewan | 7 | 142 | 1,457 | 87 | 1,686 | 22.85 |
| South Saskatchewan, Missouri and Assiniboine - Red | 10 | 436 | 754 | 2,892 | 4,081 | 42.96 |
| Winnipeg | 24 | 11 | 197 | 1 | 210 | 0.88 |
| Lower Saskatchewan - Nelson | 60 | 14 | 32 | 24 | 70 | 0.12 |
| Churchill | 22 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 0.08 |
| Keewatin - Southern Baffin | 170 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Northern Ontario | 189 | 12 | 87 | 0 | 100 | 0.05 |
| Northern Quebec | 531 | 6 | 60 | 0 | 66 | 0.01 |
| Great Lakes- St. Lawrence | 227 | 3,087 | 27,229 | 272 | 30,587 | 13.48 |
| NorthShore- Gaspé | 257 | 78 | 134 | 4 | 216 | 0.08 |
| Saint John- St. Croix | 25 | 97 | 110 | 3 | 210 | 0.85 |
| Maritime Coastal | 114 | 140 | 132 | 11 | 283 | 0.25 |
| Newfoundland- Labrador | 294 | 114 | 193 | 0 | 309 | 0.10 |
| Canada | 3,316 | 4,873 | 31,491 | 4,098 | 40,462 | 1.22 |
Notes:
1These major drainage areas and associated flow measures are adapted from Laycock, A.H. 1987. "The Amount of Canadian Water and its Distribution," in Canadian Aquatic Resources, no. 215 of Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, M.C. Healey and R.R. Wallace (eds.), 13-42, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ottawa. Some of these drainage area aggregates have more than one outflow. Drainage areas at the US-Canada border exclude inflow from United States.
2Streamflow is represented by the long-term annual average.
3Municipal water intake data is derived from the Municipal Water Use Database, Environment Canada, 1998.
4Industrial water intake data is derived from the Industrial Water Use Survey, Statistics Canada and Environment Canada, 1996.
5Agricultural water use estimates are from Statistics Canada.
C.7
Top releases of chemicals to water, 2001
Source: Statistics Canada. 2003. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 0000316-201-XIE, p.18
C.8
Agricultural pesticide expenditures and application rates by ecozone, 1970 and 1995
Source: Statistics Canada. 2003. Human Activity and the Environment. Catalogue no. 0000316-201-XIE, p.20
C.9
Water allocations for oil sands mining by company, 2005
Source: Griffiths, Mary, Amy Taylor and Dan Woynillowicz, Troubled Waters, Troubling Trends, Drayton Valley: Pembina Institute, May 2006, p. 54.
Data Source: Alberta Environment, Water Act licensees for oil sands mining.
