Thread: How much water per person does your household use?

we use 1000- 1500 litres of water a day depends on what time of year it is ,i have a 13000 litre tank at the house and i pump out of a 2500000 gallon dam which is fed from a mountain stream that runs 8 months of the year

Hmm. 7500 too dam much as my wife keeps telling me and the kids.

Be interesting to see how this stacks up. Hopefully heaps more will go over 8000.

Come guys, it will help me get the wife off my back!

Rod

I don't know but I have 14,000 gallons in tanks. my wife and I haven't run low yet. For the garden I have a bore.

Family of 4, 2 of them teenagers. 320kl/year.

Main usage culprits are teenage showers (low-vol heads) and the washing machine. The garden gets watered when it rains, use a high-pressure cleaner (< 9L/min) on the cars every blue moon.

Still waiting for the death of the top-load washing machine we bought when the oldest kid was a baby - it's just going 18 years old, and is a testament to 1950's US engineering, it just won't die.

We're also trying to slide a 100,000 litre rainwater tank past our ever-intrusive local council. If that goes in, we should be able to reduce town water consumption substantially.

woodbe.

We just got our water bill from the council with all manner of averages and targets etc. On average we use about 123litres per person per day, (the council average is 214litres), or about 3693litres per person per month. There are 5 of us, and seem to do a lot of laundry, but no hoses have been used for months...no gardening and no washing cars.
I still reckon we use too much.

Cheers,

I'll have to check tonight, but I put my garden hose away , gee, over 2 years ago now.
We have a top loader, but I'll bet that any water saved there goes on HWMBO's and the girls's showers

The gardens, well, I officialy have one small garden bed, 9 shrubs, and 13 potplants. The garden bed gets the nightly condensation runoff, the shrubs never get watered unless it rains and the potplants get watered when it rains from buckets under the drips/pipes or when they are drooping (generally after two weeks of no rain).

I, too, think our water usage is way too high.

cheers
Wendy

Acording to our last rates notice we're using around 240 litres per day. Most of the plants are natives so they get buy on a bit of water here and there. We have a hedge under construction, it gets a bucket or of water here and there. Our vegie patch gets a little as it needs it and that's about it. We run our shower and washing water straight into the yard which gives us a nice green patch. Last weeks bit of rain left 48mm in the gauge which will get things by for another couple of weeks. I still want to try and cut down the amount of liquid gold we use. Next project will be a water tank. Looking at a 5000L job for general day usage.

Originally Posted by rufflyrustic

I, too, think our water usage is way too high.

cheers
Wendy

Mine is astronomical.:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Yesterday I got the water bill for last quarter and found out that, unbeknown to me, I had a leaking pipe. Located it today under a concrete slab outside the back door. Disconnected it and capped it before it goes underground to stop the leaking.

Now to fix it by rerouting the pipe along the wall so I don't have to dig up concrete.

Then to get the bill fixed because here they charge you for the water and then they charge you for water disposed of through the sewerage system, which is arbitrarily set at a fixed percentage of water used. No advantage in trying to collect and reuse grey water because they will still charge you as if you flushed it through the sewerage.

Peter.

Originally Posted by Sturdee

here they charge you for the water and then they charge you for water disposed of through the sewerage system, which is arbitrarily set at a fixed percentage of water used. No advantage in trying to collect and reuse grey water because they will still charge you as if you flushed it through the sewerage.

Peter.

That is something that needs to change, and quickly otherwise there's no financial incentive to do the right thing, and for most folk the wallet beats the conscience hands down

Originally Posted by Sturdee

Then to get the bill fixed because here they charge you for the water and then they charge you for water disposed of through the sewerage system, which is arbitrarily set at a fixed percentage of water used. No advantage in trying to collect and reuse grey water because they will still charge you as if you flushed it through the sewerage.

Peter.

Just checked that horrible bill.

The sewerage disposal rate is calculated by multiplying the water used by a seasonal factor of 0.9659 which is multiplied by the discharge factor of 0.45 to get the KL of water. This works out at roughly half the water billed which is assumed to have gone through the sewerage system.

As this is charged at $ 1.0116 a KL in addition to the sewerage service charge there is no cost advantage in trying to divert grey water from the shower and washing machine into a holding tank for use in the garden as they will slug you anyway.


Peter.

Exactly! And exactly inappropriate for today.

We have 2 kids and my niece who I look after while she is studying in Australia. Between the 5 of us, we used 30,000 litres in the last quarter (2000 each per month).

When my niece first came to Australia, she had a 15 minutes shower every night. After my constant nagging and teaching, it is now down to 7 minutes and sometimes 10 minutes. To me a 5 minutes shower is ideal. If anyone has a shower for more than 10 minutes then there is something wrong.

Like petrol they should make water more expensive. Not that I like to pay more but we are really running out of water and people are still wasting it.

150000 per month-------big property

How big and what do you do?