water usage
Gallons per day
Water usage is the amount of water consumed or employed for a particular purpose.
The term appears in discussions of conservation, billing, and environmental policy: Our water usage spikes in summer months, The city imposed restrictions on water usage during the drought.
Usage may refer to individual consumption or aggregate demand across households, agriculture, or industry.
- bathingImmersion for cleanliness
- cleaningRemoving dirt and mess
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- cookingPreparing food with heat
- cooling systemsMechanisms that dissipate heat
fire hydrant · desalination plants · laundry · dishwashing · chemical production · wastewater treatment · aquaculture · energy generation · gardening · shower · faucet · leaky · low flow · manufacturing processes · pollution control · watershed protection · reservoir · sustainable
- environmental dataair quality index, climate data, carbon dioxide level, ozone level, weather data
- farm statisticscrop loss, corn yield, milk production, egg production, wool production
- water supply informationgroundwater, treatment plants, desalination, pumping stations, storage tanks
- water resourcesfreshwater, aquifers, aquifer, watersheds, groundwater
- Urban Environmentair pollution, urban sprawl, heat islands, population density, congestion
- business costsadministrative fees, direct costs, direct labor, labor costs, material costs
water usageelectricity consumption
Energy drawn from grid
power consumption · gas consumption · fuel consumption · land use
water usagewater conservation
Minimizing freshwater waste strategically
water recycling · drought management · water rationing · rainwater harvesting