Water use can mean the amount of water used by a household or a country, or the amount used for a given task or for the production of a given quantity of some product or crop, or the amount allocated for a particular purpose. The total water footprint of a typical 3-person household in the U.S. is 23,360 liters (6171 gallons). By comparison, a typical single family home in the U.S. only uses about 262 liters (69.3 gallons) of H2O per day (2008 estimate). This includes (in decreasing order) toilet use, washing machine use, showers, baths, faucet use, and leaks.