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  2. Residential water use in the U.S. and Canada - Wikipedia

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    The equivalent average use per person is 52.1 gpcd (gallons per capita per day) or 197 liters per capita per day. Because the distribution of indoor use in the sample of homes is positively skewed, a more appropriate measure of central tendency is the median, which is about 125 gphd (or 472 lphd). Toilet flushing is the largest indoor use of ...

  3. Daily consumption of drinking water - Wikipedia

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    The recommended daily amount of drinking water for humans varies. [1] It depends on activity, age, health, and environment.In the United States, the Adequate Intake for total water, based on median intakes, is 4.0 litres (141 imp fl oz; 135 US fl oz) per day for males older than 18, and 3.0 litres (106 imp fl oz; 101 US fl oz) per day for females over 18; it assumes about 80% from drink and 20 ...

  4. Water footprint - Wikipedia

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    This is an average amount per capita of 1.385 Gm 3 /yr., or 3.800 liters per person per day. [42] On average 92% of this is embedded in agricultural products consumed, 4.4% in industrial products consumed, and 3.6% is domestic water use. The global water footprint related to producing goods for export is 1.762 Gm 3 /y. [43]

  5. Californians' water usage is down 9% and other ... - AOL

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    Between April 2023 and last April, urban water users consumed an average of 77 gallons per person per day. That comes out to a 9% decrease since the drought emergency ended in March 2023.

  6. Some in California have to limit their daily water usage ...

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    A 10-minute shower uses about 25 gallons of water. One load of laundry uses 40 gallons. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...

  7. Drinking water - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the typical water consumption per capita, at home, is 69.3 US gallons (262 L; 57.7 imp gal) of water per day. [9] [10] Of this, only 1% of the water provided by public water suppliers is for drinking and cooking. [11] Uses include (in decreasing order) toilets, washing machines, showers, baths, faucets, and leaks.

  8. Nonresidential water use in the U.S. - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a sample of 706 hotels in New York City, average daily water use intensity in 2011 ranged from 60 to 456 gallons per 1000 square feet (g/ksf/d), with the median use of 215 g/ksf/d. [11] In other areas the median use per 1000 square feet were reported at: 257 gallons in Florida, [10] and 219 gallons in Austin, Texas. [11]

  9. Column: California's water usage was built on a historic lie ...

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    Hard choices are becoming imperative. The federal government is effectively ordering that the basin states cut their water usage by 2 million to 4 million acre-feet a year.