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I use, on average, about 3 litres of gasoline a day and about 250 litres of fresh water. This doesn't include the water used to grow the food I eat and it doesn't include the fuel to bring me my food.

But there is a difference of about two orders of magnitude.



250 litres sounds like a lot - what does the breakdown look like?


I'm using the City of Toronto statistics for our ward and assuming my partner and I are average users.

It's probably higher if you consider that I (well, we) flush toilets in commercial spaces, shower at our gyms etc.


If you're including water for shower/bath, dish and cloth washing, it does not seem a lot.


I forgot the toilets.

I found a breakdown there: https://www3.epa.gov/watersense/pubs/indoor.html




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