Water Facts - How we take it for granted!
Despite its seeming abundance, water is in fact a precious resource.
It is one of our most precious natural elements that is a critical part of our existence. We cannot make water, however we can control it and use it more wisely for the continued benefit of our own and future generations to come.
DID YOU KNOW - !!
In a typical household bathing accounts for 20% of annual water usage!
Using a Flowpoint shower head can save the equivalent of 63 litres of clean drinking water per shower!
An average bath uses around 80 litres of water, but a power shower can use more than this and in some cases up to 25 litres per minute!
A five minute shower can use up to 125 litres!
The water available for our use makes up less than one-thousandth of the planets supply - the remainder is Ice, Seawater and Humidity!
A running tap can use up to 9 litres a minute!
A dripping tap at as little as once a second will waste 4 litres a day!
On average we each use 165 litres of water per day!
If you had to collect this water from a well, it would take 18.5 buckets full to the brim!
Over 400 million people today live in regions of severe drought in the world!
Can I save money and water with a flowpoint shower head?
