Litre example sentences

The supply of water per person in an urban area in India should be about 135 litres per day (about seven buckets) – a standard set by the Urban Water Commission.An adult human excretes, on an average, 1 to 5 litres of urine per day.Any family with a ration card* can buy a stipulated amount of these items (e.g. 35 kg of grains, 5 litres of kerosene, 5 kgs of sugar etc.From the 20 houses, the net amount of rainwater harvested annually amounts to 1,00,000 litres.Gendathur receives an annual precipitation of 1,000 mm, and with 80 per cent of collection efficiency and of about 10 fillings, every house can collect and use about 50,000 litres of water annually.A comparison of the volume of the filtrate formed per day (180 litres per day) with that of the urine released ( 5 litres), suggest that nearly 99 per cent of the filtrate has to be reabsorbed by the renal tubules.Whereas people in slums have to make do with less than 20 litres a day per person (one bucket), people living in luxury hotels may consume as much as 1,600 litres (80 buckets) of water per day.Our lungs remove large amounts of CO2 (18 litres/day) and also significant quantities of water every day.GFR in a healthy individual is approximately 125 ml/minute, i.e., 180 litres per day ! The kidneys have built-in mechanisms for the regulation of glomerular filtration rate.She gets litre milk and some cooked food along with vegetables for her daily work.A million litres of sewage is targeted to be intercepted, diverted and treated.The judges directed the Mahbubnagar district collector to supply 25 litres of water to each person in the village.