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Water use (water demands) records

Information: Water demands, withdrawals and consumption from sectors like irrigation, livestock, households, manufacture and thermoelectric power plants. Spatial scale: Regions/States or national level. Temporal scale: finer resolution possible (monthly) since 1980 onward. Format: Information in spreadsheet (.xlsx) or text file (.txt or .csv) format.

The development of an updated global-scale sectoral water use model which will help to analyse water scarcity under droughts and heatwaves.

To build process understanding of how sectoral water use behaves during drought-heatwave events. It is expected to gain insight of sectoral competition and to identify specific regional patterns that can be later associate with socioeconomic indices.


Response from
Statistics New Zealand

Request received

Kia Ora In regard to your enquiry “Water Demands , Withdrawals,Consumption from sectors like irrigation,livestock,households,manufacture and thermoelectric power plants at a Regional/National level from 1980 onwards we do have some Water Physical Stocks in the Environmental Economic Accounts -these are at a broader level and are recent 1995-2020. I suggest you try the Councils both Regional and Territorial Cities and Districts as well. Environmental-economic accounts: Water physical stocks, year ended June 1995–2020 | Stats NZ Alternative organisations who collect data : Regional Local Government (localcouncils.govt.nz) NIWA | Climate, Freshwater & Ocean Science Auckland Council Wellington City Council Home | Environment Canterbury (ecan.govt.nz) Kind Regards Nga Mihi Stats Nz

2 Comments

  • Information Advisor - Stats NZ (Statistics New Zealand)

    Kia ora Tanya, the message above from 26 January 2022 remains accurate in terms of what data Stats NZ has and what other sources we recommend. The link mentioned above to the "Environmental Economic Accounts" can be found here:

    https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/environmental-economic-accounts-data-to-2022/

  • Tanya Arora

    Requesting data for research purposes.

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