6 million liters – how much is that, what to make of it?

• 20,000,000 glasses (0.3 l each) full – doesn’t help much…
• 6,000,000 liter bottles (duh)
• 1,200,000 days for cooking and drinking in German average
• 666,666 – 2,000,000 toilet flushes
• 500,000 bottle crates (12 bottles each)
• 150,000 showers
• 50,000 bathing
• 47,244 x average daily consumption in Germany
• 17,000 fillings for 150cm wading pools (about 20cm depth)
• 12,500 pallets with 4x2x5 bottle crates each
• 8,100 € at 1.35 €/m³ (though I’m not sure about this price)
• 1,200 dripping faucets per year
• 129 years total consumption for an average German
• 2,4 olympic swimming pools (50m x 25m x 2.0m or deeper)
• 1 water-mains burst in the city of Pfaffenhofen the evening before yesterday.

Consumption numbers from Quarks&Co