Urban water includes urban and rural water. Urban domestic water use by residents and public **** water (including services, catering, freight transport, post and telecommunications, and construction and other water), in addition to residential water use in rural areas also includes livestock water. Comprehensive domestic water consumption is the sum of residential water consumption and public **** construction water consumption. Public **** building water consumption includes the water consumption of entertainment places, hotels, solving rooms, stores, schools and offices of organizations. It does not include water used for firefighting, watering roads and landscaping.

Factors affecting the comprehensive domestic water consumption mainly include the size and nature of the town, the level of socio-economic development, the degree of openness, the degree of prosperity of the tertiary industry, the climate, the amount of water resources, the living habits of the residents, as well as the degree of popularity of the local sewage drainage system and so on. In national economic development zones and special zones, tourist cities, financial, financial and trade business centers and areas with large mobile populations, the standard of integrated living water consumption is higher.