Montreal Municipal Water Meter Inventory

A list of water meters operated by the City of Montreal Water Department for conducting water balances and measuring distribution to other municipalities in the agglomeration. The dataset supports the city's strategy for measuring water consumption across industrial, commercial, and institutional sectors.

Use Cases

• Conduct water balance analyses using the meter pool to track distribution across the Montreal agglomeration.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of industrial, commercial, and institutional water meters using SHP or GEOJSON files.
• Support municipal water consumption measurement strategies by inventorying installed meter infrastructure.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple interoperable formats including SHP, GEOJSON, and CSV for spatial and tabular analysis.
• Dataset is maintained by the Government and Municipalities of Québec, indicating an authoritative source.
• Updated in March 2026, reflecting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Water consumption data is explicitly excluded due to industrial secret protection, limiting direct usage analysis.
• Column names and sample data are unavailable, complicating initial data exploration and schema understanding.
• The dataset represents a snapshot at file generation time, with unclear update frequency for temporal studies.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec

Collection Method

Operational inventory from the City of Montreal Water Department.

Time Range

Snapshot at file generation time.

Freshness

Updated March 2026.

Geography

City of Montreal and its agglomeration.