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The Real Costs of Water Wastage to us and the Environment |  |
AquaTrip will detect the leaks as they appear, stop the waste and alert the consumer to the existence of a problem with their plumbing...
| EVENT | WATER LOSS | $ COST |
|---|---|---|
| Dripping Tap | A tap leaking at the rate of one drop per second will waste almost 20,000 litres in a year. | $ 54 a Year |
| A Burst Pipe | A burst pipe or a tap left fully open will waste up to 60 litres per minute or 86,000 litres in only one day. | $ 230 a DAY |
| Leaky Toilet | A toilet with an invisible leak will waste more than 8,000 litres per year, and a toilet with a barely audible leak will waste over 100,000 litres per year. | $ 268 a Year |
| Community Leaks | In a community of 50,000 residential properties, if 1 in 50 (that's only 1,000 homes) taps or appliances lose a drop a second, the annual loss will be at least 200 million litres or 5,000 average size swimming pools. | $ 536,000 a Year |
| Community Toilets | In the same community, if 1 in 20 (that's 2,500 Homes) toilets have a small invisible leak, the annual loss will be at least 15 million litres or 375 average size swimming pools. | $ 40,200 a Year |
| Insurance Claims | Each year there are on average 71,000 Insurance claims for water damage caused by leaks and burst pipes amounting to a damages bill of nearly $300 million, and many more go unreported.* | M$ 300 a Year |
