There is never enough time in the day to finish everything I must do. If you have heard this or perhaps thought this once before you should know that you have not fulfilled your day with enough YOU TIME. For me this time is most important, you get to sit, relax and stop worrying about absolutely everything. Bubble bathing and long showers for me, means relaxation. After a long day at school followed by a stressful and long night at work, without any hesitation I have convinced my inner Trina that a nice hot bubble bath is the perfect cure.
They provide so many comforting feelings, starting with the happiness of being surrounded in warm water, feeling clean, free and relaxed.
Even though Trina time is an important part of my week, I still have to keep my environmentally friendly persona. While tracking down my shower and bath usage I found water was being wasted either way I looked at it. This means that I must find an alternative way to fulfill my week that will help me stay true to my expectations as an environmentally conscious person.
Trina’s Solution: Shorter showers—same effect, soothing warm and clean…and most importantly conservative water levels.
On my water consumption sheet alone, over a course of a week I used over 600 liters of water between showering and bathing. According to an article by, John Carnet, toilets and long showers are the worlds biggest water wasters, using approximately 40% of the 350 gallons that are used daily. In the same article, I read that a Gray water recycling system is on its way, potentially allowing a house hold to reuse their shower, bath, dish, and laundry water by filtering it and depositing the water back into the system. The reused water is then stored in a storage tank, and is ready to be used again.
While learning about conserving water and terminating long showers and baths from my routine, I came a cross some professional tips: while shaving legs and applying soap, turn the water off, set a timer if needed to help make sure you stick to a certain time (5 mins.), try not to shower everyday, instead aim for every other day, and lastly if you cannot seem to save water the cheapest of ways then you should invest in a low flow shower head this allows your water to flow at a 1.5gpm instead of the average 6gpm. What many people fail to recognize is that while you conserve water, you also conserve energy.
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I also have included a video that briefly explains how much money one can save buy simply taking shorter showers. This video demonstrates average statistics that will help encourage those who decide taking 30 minute showers and beyond to reduce that time in half, or perhaps reducing that 30 minutes to a mere 5.
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I also have included a video that briefly explains how much money one can save buy simply taking shorter showers. This video demonstrates average statistics that will help encourage those who decide taking 30 minute showers and beyond to reduce that time in half, or perhaps reducing that 30 minutes to a mere 5.
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