A dripping faucet or fixture can waste 3 gallons a day.  A total of 1095 gallons a year.

Waste per quarter at 60 psi water pressure.

Diameter

  • quarter-inch1/4″
  • three-sixteenths3/16″
  • one-eigth1/8″
  • one-sixteenth1/16″

Gallons

  • 1,181,500
  • 666,000
  • 296,000
  • 74,000

Cubit Feet

  • 158,000
  • 89,031
  • 39,400
  • 9,850

Cubic Meters

  • 4,475
  • 2,521
  • 1,115
  • 280

A continuous leak from a hole this size would, over a three month period, waste water in the amount shown above.