FOR THE LOVE OF WATER 1
Indoor Water Use Non Conserving
Average Use in a Non-Conserving Home 2
•Average use in non-conserving home: 69.3 (gpcd)Per Person
•Water use from faucets, showerheads, and toilets alone can amount to 41 gallons per capita per day.
•That’s 60% of an individual’s daily indoor water use
2 Vickers, Amy. Handbook of Water Use and Conservation: Homes, Landscapes, Businesses, Industries, Farms. Amherst, MA: Waterplow, 2001. Print.
FOR THE LOVE OF WATER 2
How to Help the Customer With Water
Conservation
.
Useful Water Units• 1 cubic foot
(cf) = 7.48 gallons
• 1 ccf = 100 cf = 748 gallons
How to start a water conservation audit Information needed
Current Water Bill • Find the water and sewer
charge. Typically billed in CCF 1 ccf equals 748 gallons.
• Determine the number of days in the billing cycle
• Number of units on the property it is helpful to get the average number of people per unit as well as number of one and two bathroom units.
• Annual occupancy rate.
CoContact Venco Sales: [email protected] let us do an evaluation and suggest a solution