Water Conservation In The Shower... Is It Really Necessary?

Just ask any resident who lives in Orme Tenn., a small town where the water supply completely dried up last August.

Residents there can tell you firsthand what it's like to have to meet the needs of an entire family, when you only have access to water just once a day from 6 pm. to 9 pm.

Drought has hit more than just the Western States this past year -- the Midwest and Southeastern States are also experiencing record breaking droughts, as politicians from Florida, Alabama and Georgia, argue over how to distribute water from Georgia's Lake Lanier -- a lake that's already overburdened and hard hit by the drought as well.

Georgia's governor has asked restaurants to serve water only to those customers who ask for it, and he's asked the residents to help conserve water by taking shorter showers. Considering the fact that Georgia has nearly 10 million residents... would taking shorter showers be enough?

Consider this fact! A family of four taking a 10 minute shower once a day with a 2.5 gpm low flow showerhead, will use 1400 gallons of water a week That's enough for a 6 year supply of drinking water for one person.

Ask yourself... "is it really necessary to have the water running throughout your entire shower... and how much of that water do you actually use?"

Showers waste more water and energy than anything else we do in our homes, heavy appliances such as washing machines and dishwashers are designed to use every drop of water to do their jobs... but showers are another story.

When you're shampooing your hair (depending on how much hair is on your head,) how much time does it take to wash it before you're ready to rinse? How much water could be saved if you turned it off until you're ready to rinse?

The same thing applies when lathering and scrubbing up ... shaving or a number of other things we do in the shower... how much could be saved until you're ready to rinse?

Each of us have our own techniques or habits when showering, and here in the US when water use to be cheap and plentiful... we never worried much about the length of our showers or how much we used.

But times have changed, global warming has seriously affected our freshwater rivers and lakes as drought breaking records continue.

The cost of delivering freshwater to our homes and businesses has increased from one year to the next because of higher energy rates, and a growing population that puts even more demands on our precious resources.

We can expect utility rates to continue to rise as the demands on our water systems and utility companies increase, and as the availability of this liquid gold becomes even more scarce with each record breaking drought season.

It takes a lot of energy to deliver fresh water to our homes, and return it to processing plants where it has to be treated and cleaned, before releasing it back into our rivers and lakes.

Saving a few gallons in the shower really can make difference, just ask any resident in Orme Tenn. what they think.

About the Author

Fred Rahaming is the inventor of the "It Makes Sense Shower Head", a unique self-closing showerhead that will save up to 88% on Energy and Water... saving a family of four up to $300 or more a year on their utilities. For more information please visit: http://itjustmakessense.net/ To see a demonstration video of this unique showerhead click here: http://itjustmakessense.net/Video.html