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		chickenbig 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Feds demand compromise on Colorado River while sta... > 8.4 million gallons of water per year 8.4M US gal/year * 3.785 US gal/litre / (365 24 60 * 60) = 1 litre per second. Put another way, if the average US household uses 138 US gal/day [0] then this is 8.4M / 365 / 138 = 168 average households. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_water_use_in_the_U...

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