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Your Location and Water Supply
1. What state do you live in?
2. Do you use a public water supply or well water? If both, choose your primary water supply.
Public Supply
Well Water
 
In the Bathroom
3. How many showers do you take each day?
4. Do your showers have standard or low-flow showerheads?
Standard (3.8 gallons per minute)
Low-Flow (1.6 gallons per minute)
5. What's the average length (in minutes) of each shower?
6. How many baths do you take each week?
7. How many times per day do you brush your teeth, shave or wash your hands?
8. Do you have an aerator on your faucet?
Yes
No
9. Do you run the water continuously?
Yes
No
10. How many times do you flush a standard toilet each day?
11. How many times do you flush a low-flow toilet or urinal each day?
12. How many of your toilets currently leak?
 
In the Kitchen
13. Do you have an aerator on your faucet?
Yes
No
14. How many times per day do you wash fruits or vegetables?
15. Do you run the water continuously?
Yes
No
16. Each day, how many times do you wash dishes by hand?
17. Each time you wash dishes by hand, how many minutes does the water run?
18. How many times per week do you run your dishwasher?
 
Around The House
19. How many faucets in your house leak?
20. How many loads of laundry do you wash each week?
21. What type of washing machine do you have?
Top loading (about 50 gallons per use)
Front Loading (about 25 gallons per use)
 
Outdoors
22. How many times per week do you water your lawn or outdoor plants?
23. Each time, how long do you water your lawn or plants for?
24. How many times per week do you wash a car?
25. How do you wash your car(s)?
From a Bucket (about 15 gallons per wash)
From a hose or hose attachment (about 60 gallons per wash)
26. Do you have a swimming pool?
Yes
No
27. If yes, what is its capacity? gallons
or
  If you're not sure of
your pool's capacity, enter the following: 		My pool is:
feet wide,
feet long, and averages
feet deep.
28. If you have a pool, how many times per year do you fill it?
29. How many minutes each week do you have the water running to rinse equipment, driveways, or sidewalks?


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