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14 Facts About Sewer 
1. To avoid sewer backups never put grease down your garbage disposal or household drain.
2. To avoid sewer backups never flush disposable diapers, sanitary napkins, or paper towels down the toilet.
3. Many homeowners' insurance policies exclude damage resulting from sewer backups.
4. A sewer backup can lead to disease, destruction of your valuables, damage to your house, and electrical malfunctions.
5. A backup occurs when waste or debris has obstructed a home's plumbing system, resulting in clogged or slow-moving drains or toilets.
6. A backflow is much less common than a backup. It happens when water or waste materials come up through a sink or bathtub drain or toilet when the home's plumbing system is not being used.
7. Approximately 1 million miles of pipelines and aqueducts carry water in the United States and Canada. That's enough to circle the earth 40 times.
8. About 800,000 water wells are drilled each year in the Untied States for domestic, farming, commercial, and water testing purposes.
9. Typically households consume at least 50% of their water by lawn sprinkling.
10. Inside the house, toilets consume the most water, with an average of 27 gallons per person per day.
11. The average daily requirement for fresh water in the United States is about 40 billion gallons a day.
12. There are more than 56,000 community water systems providing water to the public in the United States.
13. These public water suppliers process 38 billion gallons of water per day for domestic and public use.
14. Between January and December of 2000, approximately 1.84 billion gallons of wastewater was treated. This is the equivalent to filling a football field nearly one mile deep!
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