Leaky Toilet -- how much water will it waste?

But he said he doesn't have normal hearing.

Besides not hearing well, one can have tinnitus that always sounds like running water in a pipe, or some other noise.

But he should/might be able to see ripples or more in the toilet bowl.

In spite of being a very old post, it does bring up a problem that any of us can have. At work I used to read our meter every month. One month it was about 12,000 gallons more than normal. We found a leaking toilet. We have about 30 toilets so it is easily missed,

replying to Andrew Richman, Pete wrote: Andrew. The biggest variable is how fast is it leaking? But even a tiny leak can blow up your water bill. I have a daycare center with 30 toilets in it. One month, the water bill, usually around $800 a month, jumped to $1200. We checked each of the 30 toilets using a red dye (made for the purpose). Pour some of the red dye into the tank and watch the bowl. Don't flush the toilet. If red dye starts to appear in the bowl, the toilet is leaking. We found only two of the 30 toilets were leaking, but those two,. over a one month period, were enough increase our water bill 50%. We now do a weekly inspection of all the toilets. Don't let a leaky toilet go. Total waste of money (and water).