Anycalculator Drip Calculator

How much water does a leaking faucet waste?
Check your faucets at home -- do any of them drip? Well, maybe it's just a small drip -- how much water can a little drip waste? True, a single drip won't waste much water. But think about each faucet in your home dripping a little bit all day long. What if every faucet in every home on your block ... in your town ... in your state also dripped? The drips would add up to a flood of water wasted down the drain.

According to to scientific investigation a small drip has a volume of about 1/4 of a milliliter (0.25 ml). So, by my estimates, there are about 4,000 drips in a liter of water. A gallon is equal to 3.7854 liters, so, by the math (4,000 times 3.7854), we have about 15,100 drips per gallon.

Enter your responses in the three entry fields in the form below. you can calculate just how much water would be wasted according to these items that you specify:

Homes: Number of homes with leaking faucets (from 1 to 1 million)
Faucets: Number of leaking faucets in each home
Drips: Number of drips per minute per faucet (from 1 to 120)

Number of
homes		 Number of
faucets in
each home		 Number of
drips per
minute

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The answers will appear in the boxes below. (Estimate ONLY.)

Here's how much water would be wasted

Drips per day: Liters per day:
Gallons per day: Gallons per year:
Baths per year: