Alana in Canada Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Hi! The kids need to collect data to for household water use. This is the info they need: 1) type of home (say, two bedroom apartment, or three bedroom townhouse (shared wall) or three bedroom detached (stand alone). 2) No. of toilets in the house 3) No. of people in the house. 4) Amount of water used (in one month): You can look on your water or electric bill: if it is for a period of less or more than one month, please let us know! Our water bill, for example says we used 18.0 cubic meters between Dec 9 and Jan 9. Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 Well, blast. I promised the kids we'd be able to do this tomorrow. (We do a half day of school on Saturday's 'cause Dad works.) But pulling out a gas bill is a dreary thing to do on a Friday night, I know. Maybe I should ask over at LLNOE! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fivetails Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Wish I could help ya - unfortunately (well, for your survey;)) we rent and the utilities are included, so we don't get the bill. I was nodding and thinking of my answers as I read and then I saw that part. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ailaena Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 1) 3-bed detached 2) 3 toilets 3) 2 people in the house 4) 10 units for Feb which is 2 units more than last year with 3 people here... Hm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 Thank you both! Not to be picky--but is your (generic you) water bill in cubic meters? or cubic feet? or what? I can covert if I know what it is. We've got the metric system, here, so it is in cubic meters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 (edited) 4 bedroom detached Two toilets 5 occupants 350 litres per day. I know this so specifically as we are currently in a very severe drought. Our water storages are very very low. There is a campaign to ask us to use no more than 155 litres per person per day. Our average daily usage is printed on our 3 monthly water bills. We use 70 litres per person per day so I think we are doing OK. We even manage the occasional garden watering... no rain since Christmas except for 2 hours about 2 weeks ago! Edited February 28, 2009 by keptwoman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 I don't know if this will be even remotely helpful 3 Bedroom, detached 2 toilets 5 people 5.3 "units" - I have no idea what I "unit" is. There is nothing on the bill that indicates the measurement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 Wow--you have to measure your water in litres--per person? Yikes. I had to laugh at the example in the text--it was from Singapore and in the example the water bills shows 51.4 cubic meters of water used in a month. In a bar graph a little later on, they break it down further: in a month they use 18.3 cubic meters simply for flushing--what we use in a month, in total! (They musn't have low-flush toilets in Singapore!) Thanks for your help, ladies. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Yep that's the joys of a drought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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