Leaking Faucet
As a leaking faucet slowly drips away into your sink, usable drinking water is slowly being wasted away and slowly increasing your water bill.
It can't be that much though, right? A few drops doesn't really amount to a climate crisis, does it? Let's do the math.
Do the math
For starters, let's say that you have just one faucet in your house that leaks just one drop every 3 seconds. That amounts to 28,800 drops and about a gallon water every day. That means about 30 gallons a month and that means about 360 gallons a year.
Let's take this a little further. Say that your faucet drips one drop every second. That amounts to 86,400 drops and about 3 gallons of water every day. That's about 90 gallons each month and about 1,080 gallons per year.
If you have more than one faucet that's dripping, that could even double or triple the amount of water you are wasting and, although you may not notice it immediately, eventually it does add up on your water bill.
What to do
It only takes a wrench and about 5 minutes to tighten your faucet. Sometimes it's just a matter of making sure it's turned off all the way in the first place. Five minutes now could mean savings for years to come so check all of the faucets in your house right now!
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