Interesting Facts About Plumbing!

Interesting Facts About Plumbing!

Interesting Facts About Plumbing!

Plumbing is a hard and tedious profession. We all need a laugh sometimes. Here are some interesting facts about plumbing. Enjoy!

-Albert Einstein was an honorary member of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union

-In a typical home, over 9,000 gallons of water are wasted a year.

-The number one material in the world for water piping, copper piping, is the same material Egyptians used thousands of years ago.

-Indoor plumbing dates back to at least 2500 B.C.

-Since 1963, more than 28 billion feet or about 5.3 million miles of copper plumbing tube has been installed in U.S. buildings. That's equivalent to a coil wrapping around the Earth more than 200 times. The current installation rate now exceeds a billion feet per year.

-If a drip from your faucet fills an eight ounce glass in 15 minutes, it will waste 180 gallons per month and 2,160 gallons per year.

-The Earth has somewhere in the neighborhood of 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons (326 million trillion gallons) of water on the planet. Roughly 98% of our water's in the oceans of the world, and therefore is unusable for drinking because of the salt content. That means only around 2% of the planet's water is fresh, but 1.6% of that water is locked up in ice caps and glaciers. Another 0.36% is found in very deep, underground sources meaning only about 0.036% of the planet's total water supply is found in lakes and rivers (our main supplies of drinking water)!

-A low flow toilet can save you up to 18,000 gallons of water per year.

These facts are something to consider next time you look at your water bill.

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