how long would a leaky faucet have to drip to fill up a swimming pool? lake casitas? the earth's ocean?

Question

science project. explanation w/ answer if possible. thanks.

Answer 1

This depends on how bad the drip is; so you will need to quantify the drip first!

You could do this yourself; set the water fawcet so that it is dripping; record the time for say 10 drips and determine dripping frequency (seconds per drip). Then stick a bucket under the fawcet, let it sit there for a known amount of time [do it at least an hour]. Measure the quantity of water collected and calculate gallons per hour. Then, all you need to do is find out how many gallons of water are in each of the things on your list. For the swimming pool, you could just specify the size: "to fill a round, flat-bottomed swimming pool 20 ft in dia and 3 ft deep (keeps the math simple), a fawcet dripping at ( ) gallons per hour would take ( ) weeks". (or something like that.

Answer 2

a pool, about, to my guess, 20 days
lake: 100 days
earth's ocean: i think that's imposible, after all, we only use 2% of water from the earth's ocean
you would need 100% of the earth's ocean to fill it up
but if you ask,
10,000,000 days

Answer 3

IT all depends on the rate of the drip. That is, is it dripping at a rate of 1ml per minute or 10ml per minute.