Americans across multiple states are being urged to conserve water as drought conditions intensify, reservoirs shrink, and utilities issue increasingly urgent warnings. At the same time, a different kind of consumer is quietly demanding unprecedented...
  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    912·
    8 hours ago

    Since it’s useful to see large numbers normalized, this is a little less than how much water all US households used in a single day in 2025 (300 billion/day) and a little under three days of the total water used for US crop irrigation (100 billion per day).

    • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      7 hours ago

      Each American uses an average of 82 gallons of water a day at home (USGS, Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2015).

      estimated population was 341,784,857 on July 1, 2025, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

      That’s 28 billion gallons per day from US households. Your 300 billion number would mean each person in the US is somehow using almost 1,000 gallons of water per day.