20 million gallons is a lot of hamburgers.
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20 million gallons of water would last for thousands of years if used for ordinary household tasks.
If a shower uses 25 gallons of water (2.5 gallons per minute x 10 minutes) and the average American takes one shower a day, it'd take about 2,192 years to use 20 million gallons.
If the water was used only for flushing a toilet, it would last even longer. Assuming the toilet is newer and flushed five times per day, it'd take roughly 6,849 years to go through as much water as was lost near UCLA Tuesday. Or, 20 million gallons could have been used for a single lifetime of toilet flushes for about 85 people.
Using the water in a dishwasher would stretch it out nearly as long as recorded human history. Assuming your dishwasher is newer and uses 5.8 gallons of water per cycle, 20 million gallons would last about 9,447 years.
Jim Dalrymple II
Kitchen faucets in the U.S. are now limited to using 2.5 gallons per minute or less. So, if you just turned the faucet on and let it run, it'd take 8 million minutes to use up 20 million gallons — or just over 15 years.
A faucet that drips once per minute produces about 1,440 drips per day, or 34 gallons of water per year (of course, some faucets drip much more than once per minute). At that rate, it would take about 588,235 years to drip 20 million gallons of water.
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