Читать книгу Green Homekeeping - Alice Alvrez - Страница 15

Improve Your Showers

This might not be the most appealing tip on Monday morning, but cutting back on your shower time can help save water. Quite a bit of water, actually.

You are likely using around 2 ½ gallons of water for every minute you are in the shower. If you want to save water, time your showers. If you shorten your shower by 2 minutes, that adds up to about 150 gallons of water saved each month. Shaving off just a minute or two will make a difference.

The main environmental savings is reduced water usage, but don’t forget that you will also use less hot water which means less wasted power.

Shorter showers aren’t your only option. A low-flow shower head can help you cut back on the gallons without actually getting less shower time. The average model will reduce your water consumption to around 1 ½ gallons per minute. They’re not that expensive and just screw on in place of the old head. You won’t even need a plumber.

You might try showering a little less often as well. The cultural norm in North America is to shower daily. That’s 25 gallons of water gone each day. Maybe you can change your thinking a bit and cut that down. Unless you a doing a lot of physical (i.e sweaty) labor, most people can stay perfectly clean with an every-other-day shower.

Any combination of these ideas will improve the environmental impact of your shower, and save hundreds (if not thousands) of gallons of water in the process.