According to GreenBuilder magazine, “Stop That Drip”, 02/2011, p. 64, one faucet leaking 60 drips per minute for a year can waste 2,082 gallons per year. Try the drip calculator yourself at: www.ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/sc4.html”
According to the Rock River Water Reclamation District, the typical home in this market sends about 376 gallons of water a day to the water reclamation plant so that drip a second is 5.5 days of water in a year or 1.5% of waste.