Water Use Calculator | The Power of 10%

Showers

Per day

Baths

Per week

Toilet flushes

Per day

Running water

Minutes per day washing hands, brushing teeth, etc.

Dishes by hand

Minutes per day

Dishwasher

Loads per week

Laundry

Loads per week

Lawn watering

Irrigation cycles
per week

Outside water

Minutes per week washing cars, using the hose, etc.

Pool

Minutes per week filling your pool.

This water use calculator is for general information only and based on local averages and national benchmarks. Calculations are estimates that are valuable for comparison purposes but are not meant to reflect exact water usage. Mathematical rounding may cause some calculation inconsistencies.

For more information on water saving tips, please visit http://www.epa.gov/watersense and http://water.okstate.edu/garden.

50-70% of water use is for lawn watering. For more information about Oklahoma lawn watering, go to http://thinkwater.okstate.edu/old-pages/irrigation.

Daily water use

* Rounded up to the nearest gallon.

Itemized Household Usage:

Shower & bath:

Toilet:

Sink:

Dishes by hand:

Dishwasher:

Laundry:

Lawn:

Outside & pool:

Daily:

Weekly:

Monthly:

Yearly:

Household total

To Calculate Per Person Water Usage:

Select the number of people living in your home

Your total selected

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Except where otherwise noted, content on this page is licensed by the Southwest Florida Water Management District under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

This project is funded by the National Science Foundation grant OIA-1301789 through OK NSF EPSCoR http://www.okepscor.org/.

This is a product of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University.