How much water does your household use a day?

[Jakaluma]

How much water does your household use a day?

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Spin off of the 'how do you save water' thread. I've just got our water bill and it very nicely tables number of occupants next to garden size to show how much water you should be using - and then gives your daily usage. We use 292 litres a day. This comes in at less than half of what we "should" be using, and we do a load of washing a day. When you think how much 292 litres is, it's pretty scary. When we go camping, a 20litre water container lasts us 4-5 days. How much does everyone else use daily?

[moneypenny]

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Wow, I dont know Kathi. It would be interesting to find out though. Mind you, the amount of water you use if you have a top loading machine is scary. I would guess that my old one would use (on a small load) about 50lts per cycle. That would be where most people's water usage goes I would say.

[~Luna~]

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We used waaaaaay to much last Summer, I'm ashamed to say.

Just today I had to re teach my almost 15 year old DD how to turn the tap on to wash her face she has a habit of putting it on fast and hard and using around 200 litres in 1 minute.

I try to conserve water with washing nappies by doing the maxi wash rather than filling it for a rinse cycle and then refilling it for the wash cycle. My machine only fills once through all 4 cycles.

I use the economy option on my dishwasher and only use it when it is filled to the brim.

I dry pail of course and wash my nappies every 2-3 days and fill the load up with towls.

[moneypenny]

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Since doing the toilet flushing with washing/bath water, I have realised that it uses around 6ltrs for a single flush and around 9 for a full flush

[´*~·Meje·~*`]

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I just got our water bill and on average we use 285L a day

Sounds huge!

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I can't remember what it said on the bill in my last house but it was always in the smallest section - 2 people, no garden I think was the description. That's pretty good for 3 people, one in cloth nappies, I think I'll be watching with interest having bought a superduper low water usage dishwasher that fits most of the kitchen in it at one time!

[Angelsmum]

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I cant remember either but its not much, however being preg I have been flushing alot lately, We have a water tank though which is filling up just as we speak,. we use that water for most of our water needs, such as garden, drinks for the pets and washing the car.

We are big water savers here!!!

[Rinelle]

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Unfortunately I don't really know. We live in a unit, and don't have individual water metres (or at least, that's how I decipher our bill), so I just get a percentage of the whole block's water usage. I'm not as good as I should be though, something I'm working on at the moment.

[magda]

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I don't know because we're renting, but we try to save water (restrictions 3 - scary). We tap when we're showering and use the water for the garden as well as the water of the washing machine. My machine uses 56 ltr a wash. I wash salads and vegetables in a bowl and use the water for the garden. It would be much easier if we had two tanks - one for greywater and one for rainwater - but we're renting.
In australian national geograph there was a very interesting article about water - I don't know which issue.
Perhaps I should read the water meter a week to know how much water we use.

[moneypenny]

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Just got our notice. We average 210ltrs per day! but I suppose I only started doing the toilet/bath/washing machine thing about a month ago. I would expect ours to go down considerably from that.