The Flume flow meter attaches to the utility water meter. Perhaps most importantly for EcoBlock residents: the Flume device will warn users if a leak develops.
#FLUME WATER DETECTOR INSTALL#
The Flume Smart Home Water Monitor systems that EcoBlock plans to install can detect flows as low as 0.01 to 0.03 gallons/minute-the company expects to have developed software that will help differentiate among various uses (toilet vs. Employing appliances that have entered the market since 2016, EcoBlock hopes to lower the daily per capita usage of each participating household to 30 gallons or less. The 2016 report suggested that up-to-date appliances could drop the value to 37 gpcd. In 2016, the Water Research Foundation reported an average residential indoor use of 59 gallons per capita per day (gpcd), a 15% drop from results of a similar study in 1999. In the past, a typical toilet used 3 to 7 gallons per flush today, the standard is 1.3 gallons and there are toilets available that use two-thirds of that. Since the drought in the mid-1970s, California has been a leader in improving the efficiency of residential water use.
The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) provides its customers with an average of 170 million gallons per day (mgd)-140 mgd in winter and 220 mgd in mid-summer-and a bit less than two-thirds goes to residential customers. Although roughly eighty percent of the water extracted in California is used in agriculture, residential water use is still substantial, exceeding 4 billion gallons per day.
0 kommentar(er)
