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My guess is that the average is very different than the median here. In general there are a few considerations: - Green lawns are considered a status symbol in
by throwaway2016a 2y ago
My guess is that the average is very different than the median here. In general there are a few considerations:
- Green lawns are considered a status symbol in the US and in many higher end neighborhoods houses run irrigation multiple times a day.
- Same goes for pools.
- Baths are common (especially for kids) and use a fair amount of water.
- Our toilets and showers are not efficient.
- We tend to do laundry and dishes with machines (though I'm not sure if that would really use more or less water).
I also suspect that number may include industrial and commercial. Since even considering the above it still seems high.
- happyopossum 2y ago> - Our toilets and showers are not efficient. You can't make blanket claims about the US as a whole for things that are driven by the states - many states have highly restrictive shower/toilet efficiency requirements.
- grecy 2y agoWhenever I’m in the states and see the urinal “American Standard” 1 gpf (gallon per flush) I cry in Australian.
- sib 2y agoAmerican Standard sells urinals with water use as low as 1/8 (0.125) gallons per flush. https://www.americanstandard-us.com/urinals-list https://www.americanstandard-us.com/urinals-list (I only thought of this because the urinals at the companies I've worked at over the past decade proudly displayed these 1/8-gallon numbers.
- pkaye 2y agoHow much is the gpf or lpf in Australia?
- klyrs 2y agoIn Australia, they're measured in pints
- throwaway2016a 2y agoYou are right, I cannot generalize. In fact our main flush function in newer toilets is the same flow as almost all countries (Australia and Japan being the exceptions) but we also have far fewer "Duel Flush" toilets (apparently, I'm just learning this myself) and the low flow on duel flush toilets uses much less water.
- zro 2y agoWashing dishes with the machine actually tends to save quite a lot of water, as long as you actually fill the machine.
- throwaway2016a 2y ago> as long as you actually fill the machine That's more or less what I suspected. Though... and I'm not sure if this is an American thing, an international thing, or just a weird quirk of the specific people I know... I know several people who run their machines every day even if they aren't even close to full.
- toast0 2y agoI'm not a fan of letting dirty dishes sit. Dried on food doesn't come off as easily.
- plorkyeran 2y agoA dishwasher is so much more efficient than handwashing dishes that it's going to save water even without being anywhere close to full.
- piva00 2y ago> - We tend to do laundry and dishes with machines (though I'm not sure if that would really use more or less water). Dish washers save water, also those are machines that Germans also use.
- throwaway2016a 2y agoFair enough, that was the one that seemed most questionable even as I wrote it.