Pipes and Plumbing: Stunning Stats and Fascinating Facts

PIPES AND PLUMBING: STUNNING STATS AND FASCINATING FACTS Greek Athletes used modern showering systems as early as 300 B.C. Thomas Crapper's plumbing company designed the modern toilet in the late (L) 1800s. Mario and Luigi from Nintendo video games are the world's most famous and recognized plumbers. 82 The word plumber is derived from the Latin word for lead-plumbum- the orginal material used for piping througout the world. Pb lead 207.2 Modern plumbing uses the same piping material that the ancient Egyptians used nearly 5,000 years ago-copper. 29 Cu copper 63.456 IF I would be a young man..I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather chose to be a plumber.) ALBERT EINSTEIN, 1954 (Honorary member of the American Plumbers and Steamfitters union) THE AMOUNT OF COPPER PIPING LAID IN THE LAST 50 YEARS COULD STRETCH FROM SEATTLE TO THE MOON AND BACK MORE THAN FLUSHING THE TOILET MAKES UP THE LARGEST USE OF WATER DOMESTICALLY IN THE U.S. AT 11 TIMES! 27% Seattle WATER USE BY THE GALLON 10 minute shower 1 bath 40 GALLONS 37 GALLONS 1 flush 1 day of a leaking faucet "Low-flow toilets can reduce this woste by 80% 6.5 GALLONS 100 GALLONS 1 dishwasher cycle 1 load of laundry "Efficient washing mashines .can reduce waste by 50% 9-12 GALLONS 54 GALLONS SOURCES: INFOGRAPHIC PROVIDED BY: HTTP:/EN.MIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/LEAD HTTP:/EN MIKIPEDIA DRG/WIKI/THOMAS_CRAPPER BEACON PLUMBING NEATING HIA MECHANICAL, COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL • INDUSTRIAL HTTP:/WwW.ECOWATERAZ.COM/PLUNBING/AN-00E-TO-THE-PORCELAIN-THRONE-BY-CUR-CHANDLER-AZ-PLUMBER/ HTTP:/WWW.COPPER.ORG/PUBLICATIONS/NEWSLETTERS/DISCOVER/DC_MAR2005/POF/DC_MAR2005_3 POF HTTP:/EN MIKPEDIA. ORG/WIKI/TALK%3APLUMBER HTTP:/WWW.BUILDINGS.COM/TABID/3334/ARTICLEID/3421/DEFAULTASPX "STOP FREAKIN'. CALL BEACON HTTP:/WWW.UNIVERSETODAY.COM/38128/DISTANCE-FROM-EARTH-TO-MOON/ 1-800-FREAKIN HTTP:/WWW.EPA.DOW/WATERSENSE/PUBS/INDDOR HTML HTTP:WWW.CITYDF.LAWTON OK US/WATERPLANT/WTPFAW HTM www.beaconplumbingseattle.com