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Orton Southgate
Peterborough
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Water Facts


Imagine yourself in swimming in a pool 7 metres long, 4 wide and 2 deep: not a big pool but large enough to take some good exercise. It contains the amount of water it is estimated you use every year in the UK: 58 400 litres or 160 litres a day. How do we manage to use so much?

 

Water Use in the home

 

  • Average Bath
100 litres
  • Average WC use daily
50 litres (old WCs use 9 litres per flush, new dual flush 4 or 2.5 litres)
  • 5 min shower
33 litres (more like 100 with a power shower)
  • Leaving tap running
eg washing up or cleaning teeth. 5 to 10 litres a minute
  • Dishwasher load
25-60 litres
  • Clothes washing load
70-120 litres


Water Use outside the home

And so that’s about 160 litres down the drain before even going in the garden. Normally outdoor use of water is only 6% of water consumption. But at peak times in a dry summer this rises to 70%. The hosepipe is the villain. Depending on use, it flows at around 1000 to 1400 litres an hour. Connected to a sprinker, it is a wasteful and ineffective way of watering. Using a trickle or drip system is a much better way: water is absorbed slowly and penetrates more easily to roots, there is no evaporation, and it can be directed to specific plants. And on average a 100 metre length only uses 55 litres an hour.

 


 
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