OT - Household water consumtion

Bob Harvey · Aug 9, 2015

Howdy. Just wondering how you all are fairing with this hot dry summer. I have a dug well (12'dia. - 10' deep with 2 - 3' deep square well rings sitting on a bed of drain rock). Through the course of history, the well has gotten to below the pump pick-up, so I have installed 3 - 2000 gal. plastic water tanks. The jist of it is, I monitor the stuff closely. It seems that the 2 of us are averaging 30 gals. per day, with out holding back in the house and watering the outdoor plants the bride wants to survive. How about You ?

LME · Aug 9, 2015

Can't help with water usage, as we water cattle. Just where are you located, as you say hot, dry summer. We have had plenty of rain here, east Kansas. Hard to get hay up without getting wet.

Donald Lehman · Aug 9, 2015

Very fortunate here. We have good water. My house well is 24" by about 7 ft. deep with a truck load of pea sized granite around the outside of the casing to filter out the sand. A 2" pump won't drain it. The well for the barn is about 15 ft. deep and adequately supplies the barn and the needs for the gardens. The well under my sons house will run out in extended dry weather. We just pump water from the shop well to his house.

Bob Harvey · Aug 9, 2015

South West corner of B.C., Canada (I also forgot to 'P' consumption - oops.

504 · Aug 9, 2015

Today's paper says we have had the second wettest summer on record. No wheat harvested and 40% of the beans were not planted,just depends where you are at.

Gary from Muleshoe · Aug 9, 2015

lme, where you at in Kansas? I grew up around Lawrence, graduated high school at Desoto.

tim s · Aug 9, 2015

I have an 8" drilled well 100 ft deep, we hit good water a 60ft. went on down to 100ft, have never ran dry,,there are a lot of very good Springs flowing in my area, all of our meadows have springs plumbed into cement stock tanks..To the south and East of my area 30 miles the water is deeper and not so good.. I often wonder about water levels and how deep wells are as I travel...

old · Aug 9, 2015

Guess I am lucky I have a good well that is 100 feet deep and have never run out of water. But I do live in a valley and have 2 springs on my place and one is less then 100 feet from the well. Back when I had the well drilled the guy hit water at 15 feet and was pumping the lake the spring feeds backwards. Back when it was drilled water came up to 19.5 feet from the surface

Perplexed · Aug 9, 2015

Sounds very economical to me. Wife , 11 year old daughter and me have averaged about 43 gals. per day so far this year. We're on city water and get monthly statements. Sometimes I wonder how accurate the meter is. The highest month was 5300 gal. and the lowest was 2700.

john in la · Aug 9, 2015

I have no idea how much water we use but I know it will keep up with 3 houses and 10 people.
I really do not think a year or even two for that matter with 0 rain would effect my well as it is over 200 feet in the ground.

oldtanker · Aug 9, 2015

I'm on a sand point well about 14 feet with plenty of good water. No idea how much we use. Never had any problems.

Rick

Traditional Farmer · Aug 9, 2015

MY well is 325+ft deep and the well driller couldn't pump it dry with his big pump and it was drilled in 2001 one of the driest years ever here.Well driller said I could leave the water running 24 hrs a day if I wanted.Good thing wife has left the water on a few times all night watering livestock and forgetting to cut it off.

Spook · Aug 9, 2015

I am in Michigan, and my well is 200 ft deep. The water comes up to about 10 ft from the top of the casing. My neighbor had a 42 ft well, it had good volume, but it was very nasty, lots of minerals. Even his dog didn't want to drink it.

I suspect we average about 150 gallons per day. 2 people, a couple of showers, baths, laundry, watering the garden or whatever.

Andy C · Aug 9, 2015

My wife and I have averaged about 42 gals. per day for the last 3 years. Our problem is a bit different than others. Well is 160 ft deep with water at 28 ft. Our challenge is the septic. we live on 1/4 acre with houses on both sides of us house built 1865 and has a cesspool (built of stone like a hand dug well) Have done a "mini" septic for the grey water. will be a problem in today's world when it gets sold but we will hope for options to come up when that is necessary. Interesting to see that we are close to what others use. The county approved systems are being built to a minimum 500 gal /day capacity

Spook · Aug 9, 2015

(quoted from post at 17:55:44 08/09/15) My wife and I have averaged about 42 gals. per day for the last 3 years. Our problem is a bit different than others. Well is 160 ft deep with water at 28 ft. Our challenge is the septic. we live on 1/4 acre with houses on both sides of us house built 1865 and has a cesspool (built of stone like a hand dug well) Have done a "mini" septic for the grey water. will be a problem in today's world when it gets sold but we will hope for options to come up when that is necessary. Interesting to see that we are close to what others use. The county approved systems are being built to a minimum 500 gal /day capacity

A family with 5 kids bought a house near me from a older couple. About 6 months in, the septic failed. I suspect there are a lot of marginal septics out there.

Richard G. · Aug 9, 2015

We have a 24 inch bored well that is 33 feet deep. Now serves 3 houses and horse water. Irrigate my garden for up to 5 hours sometimes. Son fills a 1000 gallon nurse tank out of it.
We are very blessed to live in an area with lots of water.
Richard in Oconee County SC. Oconee is Native American for "Land beside the water". Rivers all around us coming out of the mountains.

LME · Aug 9, 2015

We are SW of Topeka, in NW Osage Co.

37chief · Aug 9, 2015

I have to be very careful with my drain water. I piped my dish washer to a separate pit, and syphon my bath tub water outside to water my trees. The clothes washer goes to another area to water bushes. I went to the city to get a permit to cross my neighbors land to the city sewer pipe. They said I couldn't do that. The city wanted me to bring the sewer main up the street. This would cost me thousands, and benefit the city more than me. After giving the city a $70,000.00 road in front of my place, which I still have to maintain. I grew up with an out house, if need be, I will put in another. It will be a cold day before I give the city any more. Stan

Blackhole49 · Aug 10, 2015

I ran a municipal Water Dept. for 17 years. Meters are very accurate. The ones we bought didn't leave the factory unless they were between 99* and 101*. We did a trial test on 30+ year old meters once. All but one (92*) came in at 95* or better. Never had a meter test over 100* (we had certified test equipment). When meters failed they fail low, not high. I could take a new meter apart and make it run slow. Wouldn't begin to guess how to make it run fast.

NW Ohio Tim · Aug 10, 2015

Our water softener has a usage meter on it. It says we average 86 gal / day. Just the two of us, but we cook from scratch all our meals. That probably takes a little more water than heat & serve stuff.

Since the hogs don't drink softened water, I don't know what they use. Easily a couple hundred more per day, but you were asking about household consumption.

Tim

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