Re: Water update/poachers

["Dan Carscallen" <predator75@moscow.com>]

Hmmm . . . That adds up to less than 75 gallons per day, a lot less than Dena's number.  But that's not my biggest concern.  I'm more worried (surprised, flabbergasted?) by the 10 gallons per day lost to leaks!  Leaking out ten times as much water as it takes to run the dishwasher!  (sniff sniff) I smell a discrepancy somewhere.  ;^)

 

Dan Carscallen

 

-----Original Message-----
From: eevans@moscow.com <eevans@moscow.com>
To: Dena Marchant <denam@wsu.edu>; vision2020@moscow.com <vision2020@moscow.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: RE: Water update/poachers

More fun numbers from the American Water 
Works Association[1].

Use, Gallons per Capita, Percentage of Total Daily 
Use 
Showers, 12.6, 17.3% 
Clothes Washers, 15.1, 20.9% 
Dishwashers, 
1.0, 1.3% 
Toilets, 20.1, 27.7% 
Baths, 1.2, 2.1% 
Leaks, 10.0, 13.8% 
Faucets, 11.1, 15.3% 
Other Domestic Uses, 1.5, 2.1% 

-Ed 
Evans

[1] http://www.awwa.org/Advocacy/pressroom/statswp5.cfm

> 
I can't speak for other poachers, but I fill
> two 50-gallon drums of 
water every other week.
> They supply my water needs for two weeks, 
unless
> it rains and my cistern fills.  I pay the suggested 
> 
two dollar donation.
> 
> This is a small amount of water compared 
to the 
> average urban user.  According to the American Water 
> Works Association: 
> 
> + The average household uses 350 
gallons of water a day.
> 
> + The average 1/4 acre lawn can use 
over 3,000 gallons of water a week. 
> 
> 
> 
Dena
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