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Green Bathroom Renovations: By the Numbers
- 50 gallons: Amount of water a leaky faucet wastes in a day.
- 300 gallons: Amount of water a leaking toilet flapper valve can waste in a day.
- 15,000 gallons: Amount of water you can save per year by taking a Navy shower (and probably a Japanese shower).
- 1 billion gallons: Amount of water wasted per month from one leak in a New York water main.
- $10,000: Average cost of a bathroom renovation.
- $5: Cost of a low flow shower head that will cut your consumption by 45 gallons per day.
- $5,800: Cost of a TOTO Neorest toilet, that "lifts its lid, inviting you to have a seat. Once you do your thing, a gentle blast of warm water cleans your bottom. This is followed by the toilet's air-dry function. And after you get up, the toilet flushes the ionized, self-cleaning bowl and deodorizes the air".
- 40: Percentage of houses built with 1-1/2 baths or less in 1973.
- 5: Percentage of houses built with 1-1/2 baths or less in 2007.
SOURCES: TreeHugger, How Stuff Works, US Census
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