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