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10 toilet visits a day but only 5 minutes in the shower? Either this is an entire household and it stinks to high heaven in there because no one actually washes themselves, or it's a single person and they need to see a doctor because they're going to the toilet way too much. SO either way, those numbers make no sense.

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> those numbers make no sense.

Perhaps in the sense of "on average, families have 1.6 children" (or whatever it is) — i.e, these are aggregate numbers, not to be taken as specific examples of actual households. Interpreting statistics can be tricky like that.

Also, to be fair, that study (I briefly looked) just lists toilet per-capita GPD in the quoted section ("Daily Per Capita Use"); it does not equate it to a number of flushes. They do have a whole section devoted to toilet flushes though — see "ULF Toilet Savings".

Cool! Showers are 2gpd minimum, so if you think someone is likely to take a longer shower then you should definitely agree that 82gpd is not "wild", per the post I was replying too. Glad we're in agreement, and thanks for being so polite!

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