Re: Water update/poachers

[eevans@moscow.com]

Dena's number is per household. Multiply 75 times 4 or 5 and it works out.
I too wondered at the dishwasher number. If it's that efficient, we need to 
figure out how to shower and wash clothes in the thing. :)

-Ed Evans

> 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:
Wate> r 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% 
Cl> othes Washers, 15.1, 20.9% 
Dishwashers, 1.0, 1.3% 
Toi> lets, 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/pressro> om/statswp5.cfm

> I can't speak for other poachers,
bu> t 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 
>
t> wo dollar donation.
> 
> This is a small amount of
wate> r compared to the 
> average urban user.  According to
t> he American Water 
> Works Association: 
> 
> + The
av> erage 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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