Water Usage

[stephen]

We have just got our latest water bill and although the money cost is low the actual usage is huge. We use 1.3m3 per day.  Now we live on a farm and have 4 horses which consume about 50ltrs each per day which accounts for 200 ltrs + washing feet and feed troughs etc = a further 200 ltrs which leaves approx 0.9m3 = 900ltrs used by the house.

Now using the BRE water calculator I have calculated the following.  This is per person per day.

Toilet 58ltrs
Basin 12ltrs
Shower 25ltrs
Kitchen sink 31ltrs
Washing machine 15ltrs (per day)

Total = 140ltrs per person per day.  Now there are 3 adults in our home = 420ltrs total.

900 ltrs – 420 ltrs = 480ltrs lost somewhere.  Now I have checked for leaks and there are none. My assumption at this point is the girls on the yard leave the hose pipe running. Does anyone know how much an open pipe will flow per min.
I keep putting a sprinkler on the end only to find that no one has taken it off but its always missing.

A question to you all is what do you use per person per day. I will try to add a straw poll to it if I can.

Stephen.

[odbob]

Stephen, we are totally different situation, being just two of us in a suburban detached, but here are our figures for a reference
mains cold water 175 litres
rain water 90 litres (mainly w.c's )

and so per person = 132 litres which is somewhat close to your consumption

[ajstoneservices]

The neighbours at our last house found they had a leak in an outside supply, well actually it was the ducks that found it.

We try to keep our water use to the minimum, we go around smelling, well the girls don't, oh neither does the cat,  Me and the dog go around smelling. I cant remember where I first heard  "when its brown flush it down, when yellow let it mellow" works for us,mostly.

Tony