On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:32:18 -0400, Jeff Wisnia
wrote:

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.)
Heh, heh. If I have to teach myself, all I need a teacher for is to
verify my answer. Or not, it seems. Thanks for the education.

I have another question on this subject but I will do my "homework"
first.

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".
My wife reminds me that info came in a city water bill. This was 20 or
so years ago during a drought.

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

HTH

Jeff