Friday, July 29, 2011

How Much Water Would a Faucet Waste if a Faucet Could Waste Water?

I stumbled across this website, and I'm a sucker for drop-down calculators.  In this case, however, I'm looking at how much water my leaky faucet wastes.  It adds up.  One leaky faucet that drips just once per minute adds up to 34 gallons of wasted water a year.  The kitchen sink faucet in my very old apartment has a tendency to drop in the form of a small-but-steady stream if I'm not super careful to turn it off in just the right way.  If I don't catch it, every hour-and-a-half is a gallon of water down the drain.

I think I need to call my landlord...

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