Inside your house, bathroom
facilities claim nearly 75% of the water used.
If your faucet is dripping at a rate of one drop per
second, you can expect to waste 2,700 gallons per year. This adds to the
cost of water and sewer utilities and adds to your water bill.
80% of the fresh water we use in the US is for
irrigating crops.
4,000 glasses of tap water can be purchased for the
same price of a six-pack of soda.
Water is the only substance
found on earth naturally in three forms- solid, liquid, and gas.
17 million households use
private wells for their water supply.
Showers use about 9 gallons of
water per minute. A bath requires 30-50 gallons.
There are about 60,000
community public water supply systems in the U.S. These utilities
process 34 billion gallons of water daily.
The average U.S. residence
uses about 107,000 gallons of water annually.
Each person uses about 123
gallons of water each day.
About 1% of the earth's water
is suitable for drinking.
More than 50% of water applied
to lawns is lost to evaporation or run-off due to over watering.
One gallon of water weighs
8.34 pounds.
EPA reports that groundwater supplies serve about 80%
of the population and that 1% - 4% of usable groundwater is now
polluted.
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