Yeah, yours is rather low.

By the way, I’m also not in an area affected by the drought as we have a large resevoir.

I have no idea what my annual consumption is, although I’m always at the minimum sewer fee, and water is never more than $10.

Still, I want to conserve as much as possible.

–jc

I’m sure my fall planting new shrubs are responsible but they are drought resistant.

Your consumption isn’t bad at 100 gallons a day per person. 80 would be better.

My next washer will also be a front end loader.

jcwren, those numbers are about like mine, although I just planted 50 big shrubs and take really long showers. These shrubs are drought resistant so once they are established they require no extra watering. I’m also taking shorter showers.

I’ll bet a lot of people don’t have a nozzle on their hose so when they wash their cars or dogs they let it run on the ground when they are soaping up.

I guess my biggest waste is waiting for hot water. I’m looking at ways to correct that as it will save me money over time. I can wrap the hot water pipes, move the hot water heater, install an instant hot water under the kitchen sink, and use smaller diameter pipes. I already installed low flow toilets and new dishwasher.

I’ll be that guy Carlos had a reverse osmosis on his entire house. They discharge up to 90% of of the water when filtering. I have one on my sink that I use for drinking water because our water is really bad.

I also installed power vents on the roof which cut back on the electric consumption. Also flourecent bulbs which will save about $100 year. (they last about 12 years, so I hope to recycle them by then.)

I’ve also noticed new office complexes are using underground storage of the run off from the roof then use that water for irrigation. Some of my neighbors do that as well with plastic drums with lattice around them so they don’t look unsightly.

1 CCF is 748 gallons, so we use a nominal 2250 gallons a month.

I asked the woman at the Gainesville City water authority if this was low, average, or high. She stated they figure 3 CCF per person as average. So by that mark, we’re doing quite well.

–jc

I guess I was influenced in large part by this blog’s defenders of Chris Carlos’ use of 14,700 gal/day in September. Let see 150 gals a day per person into 14,700 means he could be providing housing for about 100 people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/us/15water.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

They didn’t do a morning release for some reason. Usually they do a morning and an evening release. I verified it with the USGS phone number for the buford dam that wspurlock provided a while back.

The lake should start to suck down around 5:55pm est when they open for the evening release.

That’s good though - it shows how much the lake loses when the dam is not actively siphoning water off. Yesterday (Sunday the 18th) they did the same thing and the lake dropped 0.01 by 5:55. So about 0.02 in a day without Buford dam. So on a weekday it’s shaping up to be about double that? That’s useful info!

(The 22 billion gallon accidental release back in June represents about 11 - 17 days of normal release, fyi.)