Water usage facts

• The average amount of water needed to produce one kilogramme of potatoes is 1000 litres, wheat is 1450 litres and rice is 3450 litres. (Gleick 2001)
• The average European uses 200 litres of water every day. North Americans use 400 litres.
• It takes 2,400 litres to produce a hamburger and 11,000 litres to make a pair of jeans, including the water needed to grow the cotton.
• The average person in the developing world uses 10 litres of water every day for their drinking, washing and cooking. (Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC))
• An old lavatory uses at least nine litres of water a flush; a low-flush model uses as little as three litres. Each household in the UK uses about 50 litres a person a day for flushing – 35% of domestic water use. (Environment Agency)
• A normal individual uses from 135-140 litres of water daily.
• Filling a kettle consumes 2.5 litres of water, a bath takes 80 litres of water to be filled and by washing their clothes everyday an individual takes 65 litres of water to fill a washing machine up.
• Traditional baths use both more water and more energy than a shower does.
• Many businesses are literally pouring money down the drain by unnecessarily wasting water. If every business in the region leaves just one tap dripping for a day, a staggering 1.6 million litres of water would be wasted over the course of a year.
• To give you an idea: much of the company's waste water is now recycled in an automatic cleaning system and constitutes half of the cleaning water needed, while a moving beam cask washer reduced the amount of water required for cask cleaning by recycling the final rinse water.
• Each person in the UK currently uses about 150 litres of water every day. This has been rising by 1% a year since 1930. This consumption level is not sustainable in the long-term.
• Agriculture accounts for over 70% of the world's water consumption. (UN Environment Programme (UNEP))
• It takes at least 2,000 litres to produce enough food for one person for one day.
• Global water use is divided as follow: 70% Agriculture, 22% Industry, 8% Domestic.

*Sourcehttp://www.pwf.co.im/watershortage.htm