Water Resources Division Annual Report FY 2016-2017 | Page 5

FY 2016-17 AVERAGE RESIDENTIAL WATER USE
PER PERSON / PER DAY
CALIFORNIA
86 gallons
SAN
FRANCISCO
41 gallons
874,228
San Francisco
Population
36 MILLION
gallons per day
Water Delivered to San Francisco
Residential Customers
FY 2016-17 REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM DELIVERIES AND SAN FRANCISCO RETAIL WATER USE
REGIONAL WATER SYSTEM DELIVERIES
Retail
Customers in
San Francisco:
62 mgd
SAN FRANCISCO RETAIL WATER USE
Commercial/Industrial: 17 mgd
Irrigation c : 1 mgd
Retail Customers Outside of
San Francisco b : 3 mgd
Wholesale
Customers a :
116 mgd
Municipal: 2 mgd
Other System Uses d : 5 mgd
Single Family Residential: 14 mgd
Multi-Family Residential: 22 mgd
a Deliveries exclude 5.3 mgd delivered in lieu of groundwater to customers participating in the Regional Groundwater Storage and Recovery Project.
b These customers are also referred to as suburban retail customers.
c These data are from dedicated irrigation accounts only, and do not include irrigation use from water accounts that jointly serve both indoor and
outdoor demands.
d Other system uses include pipe flushing, firefighting, street cleaning and water system losses from leaks and main breaks.
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