Question

How much water is wasted because of dripping taps every year?

Answer 1

Find the water wasted from dripping taps every year.

Assume there is only one tap in your house, it drops one drop in one second.

$60$ drops per minute.

$3,600$ drops per hour.

$86,400$ drops per day.

$3,15,36,000$ drops per year.

Let the volume of one drop is$0.25\mathrm{ml}$.

Volume of $3,15,36,000$ drops

$$\begin{gathered} =3,15,36,000\times 0.25 \\ =78,84,000\mathrm{ml} \\ =7,884\mathrm{L} \end{gathered}$$

Hence, $7,884\mathrm{L}$ wasted from dripping tap every year.