Skip to Main Content
Loading
Loading
Create a Website Account
- Manage notification subscriptions, save form progress and more.
Website Sign In
Search
Government
Departments
Services
Doing Business
How Do I...
Home
Departments
Utility Services
Water & Wastewater Information
Drinking Water
Water Facts
Water Facts
Did You Know?
Americans drink more than one billion glasses of tap water per day.
On average, a person uses about 100 gallons of water a day, but only drinks about a half gallon per day.
Children in the first 6 months of life consume seven times as much water per pound as the average American adult.
Nearly 97% of the world's water is salty or otherwise undrinkable.
Another 2% is locked in ice caps and glaciers.
That leaves just 1% for all of human use - agricultural, residential, manufacturing, community, and individual
A person can live for about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
70% of your skin is water.
A tomato is 95% water.
Running the water while brushing your teeth wastes up to 4 gallons a minute.
The bathroom is the room in the house where most water is used
. (The toilet is the number one water-using appliance in the home).
1.5 to 7 gallons of water are used to flush a toilet.
A five minute shower takes 10 to 25 gallons of water.
An automatic dishwasher uses 9 to 12 gallons of water to wash one load.
Water Facts
Utility Bill
Employment
Public Records
Request
Meetings
Stay Connected
GIS Map
Hurricane Michael
Recovery
Legal
Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of
website accessibility
Arrow Left
Arrow Right
[]
Slideshow Left Arrow
Slideshow Right Arrow