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The average school uses 10
cubic metres (10,000 litres or 10 tonnes) of water per day and
dirties the same amount.
Each pupil uses around 35 litres per day.
Good school management can reduce water use from 12 tonnes per
pupil per year to 4 tonnes per pupil per year. In a school of 600
pupils, that's a saving of £5,000 a year.
The average home uses:
| Activity |
Water used |
| Taking a bath |
80 litres |
| Taking a shower |
5 litres/minute |
| Flushing the toilet |
9.5 litres |
| Watering the garden |
up to 1000 litres/hour |
| Using a washing machine |
80 litres |
| Using a dishwasher |
35 litres |
| Drinking use (tea, cold drinks etc.) |
10 litres |
| Average use per person per day |
130 litres |
In the UK £30 billion is being spent by the water companies to
sort out wastage and leakage.
The amount of water available in the UK is much more than we
need.
A dripping tap can waste 13 litres per day - around a bathful every
week.
Replace a bath with a shower once a week and you'll be saving up to
25 litres of water. Warning - power showers can use even more water
than a bath. A five minute shower can use the equivalent of a whole
day's water.
A normal hose uses 500 litres of water in one hour. A seep hose
uses only 100 litres. Fitting a trigger-gun type head to your hose
means you can control the amount of water used.
Most governments charge the public between one-fifth and
one-quarter of the real cost of water. Maybe if we all paid more,
we would be more careful.
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