Did you know?

-Older toilets use 3.7-7 gallons per flush
-Dishwashers use 8-14 gallons per cycle
-Top-loading washers use 45 gallons/load
-A dripping faucet waste 15-21 gallons per day
-US water users withdraw enough water to fill a line of Olympic-size swimming pools reaching around the world EVERY DAY (300 billion gallons)
-Although our planet is 71 percent water, humans depend on a mere .65 percent of the water for survival – much of which is polluted.
-About a quarter of the nation’s largest industrial plants and water treatment facilities are in serious violation of pollution standards at any one time.
-An estimated 7 million Americans are made sick annually by contaminated tap water; in some rare cases this results in death.

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2 Responses to Water Facts About Your Home

  1. alana says:

    so do you use a water filter on your tap?

  2. Trula says:

    Hi Alana, yes we use a Brita filter, it’s awesome :)

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