We had a leaky tap fixed awhile ago.
A drop in the bucket, right?
Who cares?
If a tap drips once per second for a day, assuming 5.3 drops per millilitre, which I measured for our tap, that's about 16 litres per day, the equivalent of about four flushes of a modern toilet or one load in the dishwasher. There are 37,000,000 people in Canada. The average per capita daily water use is 197 litres. The average water wasted is 12% (leaky pipes, toilets, taps, but not counting that night I forgot to turn off the hose). That amounts to 875 million litres of water wasted per day in Canada.
Some bucket.
Some drop.
I would have to think that one drip per second is more a running tap than a drip, but point well taken...guess it is well past time to change the tap washers in the basement where it's dripped unnoticed for years.
ReplyDeleteNo judgment here. Our tap dripped for a year before we got around to a repair. Just calling attention to an opportunity to make things better. If we don't think about it, we just keep on using more than is necessary. While we are thinking, maybe we won't flush every time, and skip the 7 minute shower on alternate days. You might want to stand upwind when I'm around.
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