Enter your birth date on the home page — all 15 metrics are calculated together with a shareable summary.
Interesting numbers
National ~225 L/day, global ~184 L/day (OWID municipal water, 2022 common year).
Drinking water (1.8 L) is not included in this card. It is a separate metric.
Agriculture/industry withdrawal is not included. Definition is close to municipal network use.
What this metric tells you
Total water is separate from drinking water. Showers, laundry, dishes, and household use belong to this card. Ever Since Birth uses municipal-network averages from international water statistics: about 225 liters for the national average and about 184 liters for the global average. Agriculture and industry are not included. Drinking water is a separate metric.
Like carbon and electricity, this metric changes with country choice. Confidence is medium.
225 L × 365 ≈ 82,000 liters per year. Over thirty years it approaches millions of liters. Next to the drinking-water card on the home page, the gap is clear: about 1.8 L drunk versus ~225 L through the household network.
This is not a water-saving sermon—only the chosen country average applied over your lifetime.
Deep dive
About 225 liters (Türkiye) and 184 liters (global) per day is municipal network use: showers, taps, laundry, dishes. Agriculture and industry are not included. The ~1.8 liters you drink is a separate metric.
The figure comes from international water statistics for municipal share. Garden irrigation and leaky pipes are not modeled. On the home page, place this next to drinking water to see the gap.
How is your total water footprint calculated?
Municipal water consumption is taken as m³/person/year, converted to liters and days. A household survey affects sharing assumptions; some countries use the world average.
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Core formula
result = seconds lived × (daily rate ÷ 86,400)
86,400 is seconds in one day. The daily rate is divided by that to get a per-second pace; multiplied by seconds since birth it yields total accumulation.
Step by step
01
AQUASTAT / OWID water data
Per-capita municipal water consumption for the country is read on a yearly basis.
02
Convert m³/year to L/day
Cubic meters become 1,000 liters; the year is divided by 365.25 days.
03
Reflect household sharing
Number of people in the home roughly scales daily liters.
Reference rates
Municipal water m³/person/year → L/day; world average where data is missing.
Per day
224.82 L
Per year (avg.)
82,116 L
Per minute
0.1561 L
Reference daily rate
224.82 L/dayTürkiye example
Source note
OWID AQUASTAT: kişi başı toplam su çekimi × belediye (ev/kamu) payı. Tarım/sanayi hariç; içilen su (waterDrink) ayrı metrik. Türkiye 2022 verisi; günlük L ≈ m³/yıl×1000÷365.
What it means
Showers, dishes, and garden watering — lifetime total of municipal water squeezed into daily liters.
Assumption for this comparison
Olympic swimming pool
FINA olimpik havuz 50×25×2 m = 2.500 m³ = 2.500.000 L. 1'den küçükse yüzde, büyükse havuz sayısı gösterilir.
This reference is physically or mathematically solid.