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> 8.4 million gallons of water per year 8.4M US gal/year * 3.785 US gal/litre / (365 24 60 * 60) = 1 litre per second. Put another way, if the average US hou
by chickenbig 10mo ago
> 8.4 million gallons of water per year
8.4M US gal/year * 3.785 US gal/litre / (365 24 60 * 60) = 1 litre per second.
Put another way, if the average US household uses 138 US gal/day [0] then this is 8.4M / 365 / 138 = 168 average households.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_water_use_in_the_U.S._and_Canada#Indoor_use_and_end_uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_water_use_in_the_U...