Quick Saving Tip: Shorter Showers

For more information on saving money and water, check out GreenPlumbersUSA.com for helpful “green plumbing” techniques. A running toilet can waste over 100 gallons per day!

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!!

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.

The best way to conserve water when taking a bath is to, put the water into the pail, instead of taking shower

It such a nice way to calculate the water conservation. Its very helpful to save the water.

It’s a great idea! Nice calculations, math wasn’t my strong point so great that you’ve broken it down.

I think the water savings are far more impressive than the monetary value. In countries like Australia where there are real water problems every summer, this kind of statistic is really mind blowing…
Thanks for sharing.

This is one of the hardest areas for me to cut down but we recently moved to a new house with a much smaller hot water heater and it’s amazing how quickly you can adapt to having quicker showers or longer ones with much lower pressure.

We have a well and do not always consider the ‘cost’ of water since theres no monthly bill, but conserving water is a factor too. I have 3 children who have always shared bath water because there is no reason not to reuse it. But mom & dad, are we doing our part? Afraid that I have made no changes at all, I will need to work harder at this too!

It is also a good idea to put a bucket in the shower and then use this to water the plants.

My mom use to not let us use a blow dryer, to save money. Anyway, that is amazing that it’s monetary value is so low. It still should be done by everyone to save water.

Great post, I love it, Thank you very much 🙂

This winter I started skipping one shower per week — usually on Sat. or Sun. when I don’t have to go to work or anywhere important. I’ve found that it isn’t bad since it’s winter and you don’t sweat as much:) I’ve also noticed that my skin and hair doesn’t get dried out. My hair has actually become very shiny and manageable without harsh chemicals and hot water. I’m not sure I’ll stick to this once it warms up since I live in a area that easily reaches 90 degrees in the summer.
Also (this might gross some of you out) — I don’t flush the toilet every single time I pee. Obviously, I do flush if I’ve gone #2 (sorry to be so blunt). I usually flush every other time. Just be sure you flush before you have guests over — not everyone is water conscious. However, I can see a day in the not-so-distant future when flushing less will be required.

Great post, thank you for giving information..

Thats why I prefer baths. 🙂

Showers use a fraction of the amount of water consumed by a bath.

Been trying to kick my 45-minute scalding hot shower habit, came across your website last night, and according to your calculator…

Every year I’m wasting $800, over 40 thousand gallons of water, and 274 hours in the shower.
(Nearly 7 work-weeks worth of wasted time annually.)

Exactly what I needed to see to get me going.

I took my first steps this morning by dialing the heat down to warm, putting a large display clock in the bathroom, and focusing on what I was doing instead of daydreaming and I’ve already gotten down to 15 minutes on my first try. 🙂 Hopefully will get it to 10 minutes or less of cool water soon enough.

Yup we could save a lot of electricity & power by bathing for a few less minutes everyday

Auriette and Steven: Really great ways to reuse water that normallly gets wasted.