What is your water footprint?

[angelwolf326]

Came across this on Care 2.com and thought you all might like it:

http://www.h2oconserve.org/home.php?pd=index

[SkierBob]

neat stuff,,

Bob's total household water use is 1,115.19 gallons per day
Bob's individual water use is 557.59 gallons per day

[angelwolf326]

Your total household water use is 3,220.75 gallons per day
Your individual water use is 1,073.58 gallons per day

[Rumpled]

Your total household water use is 2,694.68 gallons per day
Your individual water use is 898.23 gallons per day

Our actual home usage is only 5 to 7 ccf per month (748 gallons per ccf).
So, our household uses 125 to 175 gallons per day or 41.5 to 58.2 gallons per day individually; in the home.
Everything in our house is either Energy Star or low flow when it comes to water.  We also live in a townhouse so very little water use in our two patio flowerbeds.

The linked calculator is a footprint calculator and uses many assumptions of water use both inside and outside the home.

[Tumblebush]

You've completed the calculator, here are your results::

Your total household water use is 1,995.27 gallons per day
Your individual water use is 997.64 gallons per day

I don't like the question or answer choices they give on that thing.

I mean...what about people that brush their teeth while in the shower? And what about if you have a lawn but you don't have to water it because the climate your in? Then it doesn't even ask about those that may use water in other useless ways....like washing down your driveway.....do you have dogs and how often do you bath them......or how many times do you fill up the stock tanks to water horses or cattle? That calculator is so city based as far as I'm concerned not a very accurate account for the amount of water people use from day to day. So you only flush your toilet at home 4 times a day.....but what about at you job or school?
Anyhoots........just my observation.