How much water per person does your household use?

[journeyman Mick]

Okay folks, we all know that water is/is going to be a big issue. How much do you use, do you know? do you care? do you try to economise on your usage or is it "their" responsibility to make sure there's always enough for you to hose your driveway clear of leaves? Tell us how much water you use and how you calculated this. What, if anyhting, are you doing about water conservation, and why (ie: environmental concerns, $$ concerns) We use about 8000L per month for the two of us which does pretty much everything, although the cars don't get washed very often (more through lack of time than anything) and the lawn doesn't get watered either. We have a 26,000L tank fed from our roof as our primary supply and I calculated our usage by watching how the levels fell over the past four years. For me it's not really a $$ issue, I could run our bore and keep the lawn green even during the really dry spells, but that's just really wasteful to my way of thinking.

Mick

[Groggy]

We use a smidge over 8kl each (four of us, with regular MIL swoop-ins). If we were to work it out individually, my teenage son would send most of it down the shower drain.

A good thread though, I'll be interested to see what others use. It is rather hard to work it out off the bills, almost like they don't want you to know .

I've highlighted the area in the heading as I think this will help explain wide variations.

[DJ’s Timber]

I am using on average 3500 litres a month in a single household, where I have friends come and stay on average every fortnight for the weekend which is one adult and two kids

Cheers DJ

ps I have water saving shower heads and a front load washing which only uses a third of the water that a top load does and I don't water the garden which is mostly native to the area (tallest flowering trees in the world) and normally wash my car at my parents house as they have a pressure cleaner

[outback]

I don't got no metered water.
Like Mick, I get a pretty good idea watching the tank, which is also our primary supply, but we do use bore water a fair bit.

For our household, 2 adults, and until recently, 2 kids, we would use almost 4000 litrs per person. I'm not sure how much differnce it made when our daughter went to boarding school.

[Clinton1]

Total of @3000 Lt per month for 2 people (its metered).

I don't wash the car (unless its raining). The lawn is watered via grey water. Only the vege patch is hand watered in summer, rest of the garden is tough.
Low flow showerhead, set the water level on the washing machine for each load. No pool or spa. I turn the water off when soaping up in the shower, back on to rinse.

We used a lot more, but stopped using the dishwasher, washing the car, hosing driveways, watering lawns from the hose, taking long showers and lots of other stuff.

What about all the other water I use (the stuff used to produce the things I buy) - absolutely no idea.

[Ashore]

Big mistake , made the wrong calculation We use 8 to 9 kl per month
Definately not the 2kl I put down in the poll
WE do have a couple of weekly visits from the grandsons and they always have a bath before going home ,

Rgds

[Groggy]

Anyone else find their bill harder to read than should be necessary? i.e. you used this much, at this rate, so you owe this much?

Mine is scattered all over the place, I had to pay attention to follow it through.

[Auld Bassoon]

Hi Mick,

As it's just me in this household(?), I don't tend to use very much. However, when there was a female in my company, so to speak (), the water usage (not to mention the yardage of Dunny Roll consumption!) would increase markedly

So, in the interests of water conservation, I'm keeping lassies "oot the hoose"

[echnidna]

Don't have the foggiest.
Rainwater tanks for drinking backed up by creek and bore water

[ozwinner]

Big mistake , made the wrong calculation We use 8 to 9 kl per month
Definately not the 2kl I put down in the poll

Rgds

Fixed.

Al

[ozwinner]

We use just over 5000 l per person per month.
I think it is mainly the son who uses it.
When I have a shower Im like a sparrow, quick flick of water, then Im out.

Al

[Rocker]

oops; didn't read the question properly; I answered 4000 L; should have been 2000L, and less now that we have had sprinklers and hoses banned.

Rocker

[Wood Butcher]

oops; didn't read the question properly; I answered 4000 L; should have been 2000L, and less now that we have had sprinlers and hoses banned.

Rocker

Fixed

[Wood Butcher]

To be honest I really don'tknow as we are renting at the moment so we never see the water bill. But this thread has made me think so I'll check the meter tomorrow night and se what it is in 1 month.

We try to be as conservative as possible. SWMBO and I shower first with the plug in to catch the water for the kids bath. I don't wash the car unless I really want to then I reuse the bath water (bucket it out) which otherwise gets bucketted out for water the vegies.

[Clinton1]

Rowan,
Can you change my poll answer to "up to 2000L ", I mis-read and polled for the combined household, not per person answer!
Thanks