One gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds; one cubic foot contains 7.84 gallons of water.
People need about 2.5 quarts of water a day to maintain good health. A person can live without water for approximately one week, depending upon the conditions.
While usage varies from community to community and person to person, on average, Americans use 183 gallons of water a day for cooking, washing, flushing, and watering purposes. The average family turns on the tap between 70 and 100 times daily.
About 74% of home water usage is in the bathroom, about 21% is for laundry and cleaning, and about 5% is in the kitchen.
A clothes washer uses about 50 gallons of water (the permanent press cycle uses an additional 15 gallons).
It takes 12 to 20 gallons of water to run an automatic dishwasher for one cycle.
About 2 gallons of water go down the drain when the kitchen faucet is run until the water's cold.
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