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Check your faucets at home -- do any of them drip? Maybe it's just a small drip how much water can a little drip waste? True, a single drip won't waste much water. But think about each faucet in your home dripping a little bit all day long. What if every faucet in every home on your block, in your town, in your state also dripped? The drips would add up to a flood of water wasted down the drain.
There is no scientific definition of the volume of a faucet drip, but after measuring a number of kitchen and bathroom sink faucets, the volume seems to be between 1/5th and 1/3rd of a milliliter (ml). Drips from bathroom tubs come in a bit more, though, at about 1/2 ml. So, for our calculations below (numbers are rounded), we are going to use 1/4 ml as the volume of a faucet drip. So, by these drip estimates: One gallon : 15,140 drips One liter : 4,000 drips |
source : USGS HOME
