5.) The Japanese Bad Boy. Akio Kashiwagi is known as one of the biggest gamblers of all time. He was a property developer in his normal life and a high-stakes baccarat player by night. In one misfortunate stint, Akio actually ended up setting a world record for the biggest single-session loss in baccarat. He lost a total of roughly $10.5 million at the Trump casino.
Meanwhile, Indoor use accounted for more than 170 gallons per household per day. Not surprisingly, the most in-home water consumption was in toilet flushes. A more shocking finding, however, was the whopping 18 percent lost to leaks inside homes. Data from the study is represented in the charts below.
Water is an important part of our daily lives and we use it for a wide variety of purposes, but do we really understand how much we use? The average American family uses more than 300 gallons of water per day at home. Roughly 70 percent of this use occurs indoors. Nationally, outdoor water use accounts for 30 percent of household use yet can be much higher in drier parts of the country and in more water-intensive landscapes. For example, the arid West has some of the highest per capita residential water use because of landscape irrigation.