Did you know that...

 

> About 65% of indoor home water use occurs in our bathrooms. Toilets are the single greatest water user.

 

> “UNESCO has predicted that by 2020 water shortage will be a serious worldwide problem.”

 

> In Canada in 2001, the average person used more than 335 litres of fresh water a day.

 

> In your house check for leaks from faucets and pipes; even the smallest drip can waste as much as 75 liters a day.

 

> Almost 80% of the earth's surface is covered in water. Of this, 97% is salt water, 2% is glacial ice. That leaves less than 1% as fresh water for us to use.

 

> The human body is about 70% water; we cannot survive more than a week without water.

 

> A mere 10% of our home water supply is used in the kitchen and as drinking water.

 

> Indoor water use peaks twice a day year-round, in the mornings and evenings.

 

> The biggest peaks during the year occur in the summer, when about half to three quarters of all municipally treated water is sprayed onto lawns.

 

> As a community grows, the water use grows even faster because the diversity of water uses increases with size.

 

Source:

 

Environment Canada - http://www.ec.gc.ca/water/en/manage/use/e_use.htm