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Step by step Guide: How to Use the Water Usage Calculator
- Input Values:
- Enter how many showers per day you take and how long each one lasts (in minutes).
- Enter toilet flushes per day.
- Enter how many times you run the washing machine and dishwasher per week.
- Enter the average minutes you run the faucet per day.
- Click “Calculate”:
- The calculator will estimate your daily, weekly, and monthly water usage in liters.
- Review the Chart:
- A bar chart will display water usage visually across timeframes.
- Export Your Results:
- Click “Export CSV” to download a spreadsheet of your results.
- Click “Export PDF” to get a printable water usage summary.
- Start Over: Click the “Reset/Clear All” button to erase all inputs and start fresh.
Water Usage Calculator – Find Out How Much Water Your Household Consumes
Use our water calculator to estimate your household’s indoor and outdoor water usage, then discover ways to lower its consumption using its results! Plus, get tips for cutting back!
Watering outdoor spaces accounts for as much as 70% of residential water consumption. Use this tool to calculate how much water is required for your lawn, garden or shrubs.
How Much Water Do I Use?
Understanding your household water use is both for billing purposes and savings planning purposes, so use our Water calculator to estimate both indoor water consumption and any outdoor uses such as lawn or garden watering needs.
This calculator employs two methods to estimate your average daily residential water use – using readings from your meter and monthly water bills, respectively – both estimates should be comparable with average residential usage in our service area (25-50 gallons per person per day for indoor household usage and 30-60 gallons for garden/lawn use).
Complete all required questions and enter answers, then press “Calculate”. Your estimate can be seen at the bottom of the page.
Are You Living in Your Household or Do You Rent An Apartment?
What Are Your Measures of Involvement with Faucets Every Day, Brushing Teeth or Shaving Shaveing Taking Showers Each Week And How Long Do They Take to Fill Using How Many Litres of Water Per Bath Fill-in Approximately?
How often does your household use the washing machine each week? For how many minutes does the dishwasher run every week? How many gallons of water does it take to wash your car with a hose pipe each week? And for how many minutes do you spend at the kitchen sink with its faucet running each week?
Hydrating sufficiently is crucial to good health; according to one rule of thumb, adults should aim to consume half their bodyweight in ounces every day.
Calculators come preloaded with average household water use numbers based on Ecology and EPA residential guidelines; if you know exactly how much your household uses, enter those figures in the Required Question field or use our Detailed Method Question sets to generate your own estimate of residential indoor water consumption.
To help estimate outdoor water usage, we suggest visiting the WRIA-1 Adjudication Resources Explorer and drawing and calculating your lawn and garden size in square feet. If unsure, leave the default value of 10800 and click “Calculate”.
How Much Water Do I Need?
Water is essential to our bodies. It keeps your heart beating, lubricates joints and tissues, regulates body temperature and flushes out waste products from our systems, while also contributing to overall well-being through mental health benefits and positive effects on mood. Hydration is key in emergency situations – having sufficient clean emergency water at home for washing up, hygiene purposes as well as making freeze-dried food edible is of utmost importance!
This calculator helps you estimate your household water use to help prepare for an emergency situation. For an accurate estimation, fill in all fields.
There may be additional uses of water that you need to account for, such as filling humidifiers or fish tanks with non-potable water, watering the garden with non-potable water or washing vehicles with non-potable water – these uses aren’t included in this calculator but can easily be estimated by adding up all types of usage over one week.
Drinking Water consumption in a typical household largely revolves around drinking; men should aim to drink 100 ounces daily and women 73. However, this recommendation only represents an ideal benchmark – the actual quantity can depend on various factors, including size, metabolism, age, physical activity level and location (hot or cold weather can increase or decrease fluid needs).
Laundry and Dishwashing To estimate your laundry and dishwasher usage, enter the number of loads completed each week by each individual in each line, followed by their maximum capacity in gallons per load as stated on their device’s owner manual or chart similar to this one. Finally, sum all these capacities by totalling them in column on right.
Miscellaneous Washing
Each person requires approximately seven and a half gallons of water every week for personal hygiene activities like showering, bathing, hand and face washing, dish rinsing and dish drying. This calculation also assumes they will use freeze-dried foods that need approximately 1 cup of water to reconstitute before use in recipes.
How Much Water Do I Save?
Use less water and reduce energy use with this calculator! Saving water, energy and money all at the same time by switching to efficient toilets, showerheads, dishwashers and clothes washers could bring significant energy savings – plus reduce environmental impacts! Based on an assumption that you own an electric water heater costing $0.08/kilowatt-hour.
Water saving tips also include simply switching off the faucet while brushing or shaving and using a sink full of water to rinse your razor, instead of running your sink continuously – saving up to 180 gallons every month in an average home! Furthermore, only washing full loads of laundry and dishes can also significantly cut back water usage.
Take into account all miscellaneous water that you use, such as humidifier refills or fish tank aeration, garden hose use for watering your yard or washing vehicles, etc. If there’s any way you can reduce usage, add its value to Worksheet 1 numbers.
Consider how much water you consume at work or school by estimating how many showers, baths, meals that require dishwashing and laundry you do each week. If there are ways you could reduce this usage and save more water through conservation strategies, calculate how many gallons would be saved and add it up with other appliances in your household.
Follow a few easy tips and you’ll save water and reduce utility bills while at the same time helping protect the environment. When using more efficiently, less will be diverted from rivers, lakes, and estuaries, helping preserve its health. For more information on conserving and saving water click the links on the left, or watch our short videos on reading your meter accurately and how to find and fix leaks; our Home Water Works program also offers Water Efficiency Workshops across most service territories; or just read through our Water Efficiency Tips before getting started!
How Much Money Can I Save?
Water conservation can not only benefit the environment, but it can save both energy and money. Pumping, treating, and delivering water takes considerable power; your energy costs include running your appliances as well as heating or heating the cold/hot water in your home (both hot/cold). Your energy consumption may also be reduced through using appliances like dishwashers, clothes washers, showerheads or faucet aerators that conserve water usage.
At home, expenses beyond energy costs for hot water include sewer charges, sand, gravel and chemicals required to repair pipes in your community and maintain infrastructure. Furthermore, your water bill includes an amount for lost water; many households can reduce consumption by installing devices like faucet aerators, low-flow showerheads and toilets that reduce consumption and costs.
Make use of this calculator to assess your residential water consumption, then follow our helpful suggestions for conserving both indoors and outdoors.
Enter your household information into the necessary fields, press “Calculate,” and review your estimate at the bottom of the page.
This water usage calculator is based on current Ecology and EPA water use guidelines as well as other resources. While we strive for accuracy, please keep in mind that every household will vary and therefore estimates may differ accordingly.
Worksheet 2 helps you estimate how much water could be saved with water-saving devices by filling in household members, loads of laundry or dishes and estimated energy savings per appliance in two columns. Compare your new value against the state average of 62 gallons per person to see how much you may save. Changing over to a water meter program in your area could also save money; to learn more contact your water provider.