• About 65% of indoor home water use occurs in our bathrooms. Toilets are the single greatest water user.

“UNESCO has predicted that by 2020 water shortage will be a serious worldwide problem.”

• Did you know that in Canada in 2001, the average person uses more than 335 litres of fresh water a day?

• In your house check for leaks from faucets and pipes; even the smallest drip can waste as much as 75 liters a day.

• Almost 80% of the earth's surface is covered in water. Of this, 97% is salt water, 2% is glacial ice. That leaves less than 1% as fresh water for us to use.

• The human body is about 70% water; we cannot survive more than a week without water.

• A mere 10% of our home water supply is used in the kitchen and as drinking water.

• Indoor water use peaks twice a day year-round, in the mornings and evenings.

• The biggest peaks during the year occur in the summer, when about half to three quarters of all municipally treated water is sprayed onto lawns.

• As a community grows, the water use grows even faster because the diversity of water uses increases with size.

Source: Environment Canada