Guidelines for Using the Water Usage Calculator

The Water Usage Calculator is a useful tool to get an estimate about household’s daily water consumption in most common activities like dish washing, toilet flushing and others. Before we dive into the details of the calculator, let’s have a breakdown of the content to make it easy for you to understand and use the tool for calculating average house hold water usage. Here is the breakdown:

Steps to Use the Calculator

The major steps to use this calculator are as follows:

• Input The Shower Duration
• Input The Toilet Flushes
• Input The Dishwasher Use
• Tap The Calculate Water Usage Button
• Understanding The Results

Let’s discuss them in detail. Here we go:

Input The Shower Duration

The very first step is to input the shower duration in minutes per day. A shower usually uses two and half gallons of water per minute. If you can lower down the shower time, this will ultimately help you to control the water loss.

Input The Toilet Flushes

The second step is to input the total toilet flushes each day. Toilets use almost 1 and half gallons of water per flush. So, you have to input this accordingly.

Input The Dishwasher Use

The total number of dishwashers and their load per week is crucial to estimate the water usage. Each dish washer uses almost 6 gallons of water. So, they are more efficient than washing by hands in most of the cases. You can compare the water loss between dishwasher or washing by hand.

Tap The Calculate Water Usage Button

Just tap the Calculate Water Usage button after inputting all the details. The calculator will immediately process your data and give you results accordingly.

Understanding The Results

The tool will give you output based on the details you provide. The data will contain total estimate of household water usage per day.

Key Considerations

How Much Water Does a Dishwasher Use?

As we know the manual dish washing use much more water than dishwashers that are specifically designed for the washing of dishes using a specific water.

Toilet Water Consumption

Toilets are the basic needs where water usage is necessary. So, to estimate the total daily water usage, you have to consider the toilet water consumption.

Average Household Water Usage

On average a typically American house use 300 gallons per day for regular daily activities. These can fluctuate on the basis of usage and number of people residing in a house.

Conclusion

So, we hope that this tool will help you to estimate the total amount of water required to carry out the daily household affairs. This is an estimate of the information you provide to this tool as input and this tool uses the standards of daily consumption of water to make your calculations precise and reliable.

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