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Learning > The Facts
Residential Water Usage
Facts
The average toilet uses 5 to 7 gallons of water per flush.
A shower can use 25 to 50 gallons of water (5 gallons per minute).
The average bath takes about 36 gallons of water.
About 340 billion gallons of water are used every day in the United States. This total includes water used in irrigation, in industry, in fire fighting and in street cleaning. It takes about 1 gallon of water to process a quarter pound of hamburger.
It takes 39,000 gallons of water to manufacture a new car, including tires.
It takes about 800,000 gallons of water to grow an acre of cotton.
Ten gallons of water are needed to refine one gallon of gasoline.
An egg is about 74 percent water.
A watermelon is about 92 percent water.
The water we use today is the same water the dinosaurs used.
The Earth's oceans cover about 140,500,000 square miles and contain almost 330,000,000 cubic miles of water.
Cutting one minute off your shower time can save about 700 gallons of water per month.
Fresh, incompact snow is usually 90-95 percent trapped air.
Humans require about 2 1/2 quarts of water a day.
More than 1.5 billion people do not have access to a safe and adequate water supply.
The average American individual uses 100 to 176 gallons of water at home each day.
There are more than 55,000 community water systems in the United States, processing nearly 34 billion gallons of water per day.
47 percent of the US population uses surface water; 53 percent of the US population uses groundwater.
The distribution network for large water systems in the U.S. comprises about 600,000 miles of pipes.
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