Water Security: Water Data & Statistics

This guide supports Water Security Research at the University of Saskatchewan, including the Global Institute for Water Security

Water Security: Data and Statistics

This page lists some common places to find water data and statistics. For a more thorough list, be sure to visit the Data and Statistics Guide.

ODESI (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure)
A web-based data exploration, extraction, and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard. ODESI provides the ability to search for survey questions (variables) across hundreds of datasets, and supports basic tabulation and analysis online. Datasets and documentation are available for download in a variety of formats for further analysis.

License Information: There are no restrictions to the number of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for their occasional use, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.

Statistics Canada
The Statistics Canada website is the central access point for data and statistics at the federal level. Using the StatCan website you can: Find and access data in a variety of formats; explore the Census and Census Profiles, find data and statistics by region or area, and find data by survey or statistical program.

Note: Data tables available on the StatCan website were formerly known as CANSIM tables. View concordance between CANSIM table nubmers and new Product IDs here.

Environment Canada: Climate Data
Access historical weather, climate data, and related information for numerous locations across Canada.
Environment Canada: Water Survey
The Water Survey of Canada is the national agency responsible for the collection, interpretation and dissemination of standardized water resource data and information in Canada.

USGS: Water Use in the United States
The U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Use Science Project
The World's Water
Surf Your Watershed
Look for How’s My Waterway?, Version 2 coming in Fall 2018.
USGS: Water Data Discovery