Andy Asberry wrote:


I read somewhere that a faucet that drips once a second will use 6
gallons a day. Can anyone verify that?

If I was still teaching students I'd tell you to inmrove your chances of
getting a "A" from be by doing it yourself, but I'm feeling good today,
and you piqued my curiosity, so here goes. (noblese oblige.)

Googling quickly locates the volume of "a drop" of water. It's .05 ml.
(I suppose that would vary a little with the shape and surface
conditions of what it's dripping off from and the purity of the water
too, but let's use that number for now...)

http://www.alumni.ca/~walkerd/sf7.html

There are 86400 seconds in a day. (A number I'll never be able to forget
because I used to help make atomic clocks for the GPS satellites.)

86,400 * .05ml = 4320 ml

Plugging this in at:

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/volume

Gives us 1.141 gallons, not even 20 percent of what you "read somewhere".

(Don't believe everything you read Andy...)

HTH

Jeff


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