Jan

26

How Much Water Is Your Home Wasting?

Filed Under Water Conservation 

Water is life. Without water, you cannot physically live. Without water, you cannot cook, bathe, clean your home, or wash the laundry.

Supplying enough water to meet the needs of billions of people is difficult. It is even more difficult when water is wasted. You can help by finding ways to reduce the amount of water in your own home.

The average American household wastes 40,000 gallons of water a year. Much of this waste is created by inefficient appliances and outdated fixtures. By simply replacing these appliances and fixtures with water-saving devices, you can stop half of this waste. By stopping the waste of water, you not only save money, but you also preserve water supplies for the future.

If you run the faucet in your kitchen four minutes a day, you are using an average of 4,000 gallons of water a year. A water-saving faucet can reduce this usage by 1,000 gallons a year.

A traditional washing machine uses approximately 50 gallons of water per load. If you wash two loads of laundry a week, that is about 5,000 gallons a year.  By replacing your washer with a high-efficiency machine, you can save 2,000 gallons of water per year.

One fifteen-minute shower every day for one year uses 19,000 gallons. A water-saving showerhead will reduce this usage by up to 12,000 gallons in a year.

The largest waste of water in your home is the toilet. An older toilet will use 33,000 gallons of water per year if it is flushed 15 times a day. A water-saving toilet can save 24,000 gallons of water every year.

The wasted amounts of water add up to 5.4 billion gallons and $11.3 million a day. By simply replacing your outdated faucets and appliances, you can save 2 trillion gallons of water and $4 billion a year. Now that is a lot of water.

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