By Cathy Frisinger
McCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
How much is that leak costing you? At www. awwa.org/advocacy/learn/conserve/dripcalc.cfm there is an easy-to-use drip calculator. Plug in the number of drips per minute for slow leaks, and it will tell you your daily, monthly and yearly waste. For larger leaks, it instructs you to hold an 8-ounce cup under the leak and time how long it takes to fill it.
Let's see, our leaky shower head, dripping at a rate of about 80 drips per minute, is wasting about 4,205 gallons of water a year. Gotta get that fixed.