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A short 5-minute shower uses between 25-50 gallons of water. That’s comparable to washing a load of clothes!
More than 50% of landscape water use is estimated to go to waste due to evaporation or runoff caused by over watering.
In a year, the average American residence uses over 100,000 gallons of water.
In just one day, 200 million work hours are consumed globally by women collecting water for their families.
The world’s largest water reclamation facility in Chicago is located on over 500 acres of land and treats up to 1.5 billion gallons of water per day!
Just one gallon of gasoline can contaminate approximately 750,000 gallons of water.
Recycled water costs a little over $1000 an acre-foot to produce, about HALF the cost of desalinating ocean water!