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The tenants that live next door to me, their bathroom is back to back with my kitchen, While reading the newspaper at my kitchen table, I can hear the water running, so I timed the shower, I clocked it at 26 minutes.......................There are 3 adults and a toddler living there.... then i wonder why when it is my turn to shower at night sometimes there is no hot water...............
That's a great idea. Also, I now take Navy showers. That cut my monthly usage from 3 units to 1 unit. Not that is reduced my bill accordingly. THe units get cheaper, the more you use.
If you are serving on a ship or sub with up to thousands of others, to conserve water you would get yourself all wet, turn off water, and then soap up, wash hair, and shave, and then turn water back on and rinse.
Installing a true low-flow shower head could probably add up to a lot of water savings. A lot of the shower heads you see at hardware stores and places like Lowe's/Home Depot that may labeled as low-flow are not even close (the manufacturers are extremely nervy to even label it as such).
One company that seems to make some pretty nifty real low-flow shower heads is called Bricor. I've been eyeballing some of their models for a while for a cabin. I need super low-flow, because the 250 gallon cistern would get drained pretty quick if I used a regular shower head that cranked out several gallons a minute. The Bricor models go all the way down to 0.37 gallons per minute. I think that might be a bit on the extreme conservation side and a lot of people couldn't deal with that.... but I'm thinking that something in the 0.75 to 1.25 gallons per minute range might be doable. The amount you could save in one shower alone would seem to be substantial.... then multiply that by however many showers a year.... you'd probably save around 11,000 gallons of water a year, by rough estimation... (based on a 15 minute shower - naturally shorter shower would be good, too)
To take an easy Navy shower, buy a showerhead that has a trickle or on/off switch. Get in the shower and wet down, turn water off at shower head, soap up, turn water on and rinse off.
Instead of installing a brick or water bottle in your toilet's tank, simply adjust the float valve to reduce the tank's water level.
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