This study focussed on measuring water expenditure in school bathrooms and studying people’s behavior with regard to its usage.
A modern toilet built with automatic water faucets as part of the renovations in school infrastructure pointed to an unsettling fact. It was found that the faucets were running for a long time even after the students washed their hands, for an average of 35 seconds. A two-week study was conducted on the students’ behavior of washing their hands. The team not only compared the time that
the taps ran water with the time that students needed to wash their hands, but it also additionally found out how often the taps were used and how many liters of fresh drinking water just flowed into the sink. It was discovered that, each day 600 liters of fresh drinking water is being wasted without having served any purpose at all.
The issue, backed by data was taken up with the city council and permission was obtained to reduce the water limit to 12 seconds.
