In this post, I'm going to be writing about showers. Not what you should shower with, yet, because that's a whole different story. So, back to what we were talking about.
Some time ago, my mum bought the family a timer, it was a - what do you call it?? - err, an hourglass? Anyway, she bought us one for a reason: to keep track of how long we should be in the shower for. I found it very efficient and fun, especially when I got out of the shower before the timer finished. Basically, it was a four minute countdown, and you flipped it upside down to start it (like every hourglass). This meant you were using a good amount of water while showering.
You should take shorter showers because the average shower head produces 2.5 gallons of water a minute, or; at least 20 gallons every 10 minutes. Therefore, having a four minute shower only uses around 10 gallons of water which, on its own, sounds like a lot, but it's half of what you could be using (this also saves a lot of money each year, but that's not what we're talking about😉).
I've completely forgotten how long my showers used to be before timing myself, and now that I take four to five minute showers, a 10 minute - or more - shower sort of makes me feel horrified.
If you want to go even further than that, what I do is: turn off the shower as I wash. If that doesn't make sense, every time I wash my hair or body, I turn off the shower head and scrub, then turn it on again to clean the bubbles off. Although it can get a bit cold, it saves even more water, but really only if you're having a short shower.
Each person in the UK uses an average of 142 litres of clean water everyday, and a quarter of that - the biggest single chunk - goes to showers, say the people in 'This Book Is Not Rubbish'.
I learned a lot of new things while writing about this, for example: I didn't know that an average shower head releases 2.5 gallons a minute😮! Did you know that? Anyway, thanks for reading this post and hope you all had a lovely start to 2020!
Violet
xxx
No comments:
Post a Comment