Quick Saving Tip: Shorter Showers
When I was a kid, I would constantly hear my mom tell me I need to stop wasting so much water and take shorter showers. She would also use the fact that it costs so much to shower as a point to get me out of the shower. I now take showers around 5 minutes as it is not about the money, but more about conserving water. I will go further into how much money and water you can actually save by cutting your shower time down.
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I first needed to find the average cost of water to begin my calculation of which I found was $2.00 per 1000 gallons. The next number I need was the number of gallons of water the average shower head uses per minute. This number was readily available on a number of sites and is 2.5 gallons per minute. I used these two numbers to figure out how much you would be save by showering 1 less minute.
That means that you an save a half of a penny for each minute you shower less. This doesn’t seem like a lot, but it can add up.
So that means you can save a little over $9 per year if you cut back on showering 5 minutes less in the shower per day. That doesn’t seem like a large savings, but you also have to consider the amount of water you are also saving. You will also be saving over 4500 gallons of water per year.
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Wow, those statistics are pretty sobering! I’ve started turning off the shower while I wash my hair and soap my body. That’s helped us to save water! Great post!!
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A great way to help conserve water is using a bucket to catch the cold water while the shower is warming up. You can use the water for your plants and a lot of other things around the house.