making your showers green
Do you want to make your showers green? Well, you must first, figure out how long they are. See how much time you spend between getting in and toweling off, and try shaving off 30 seconds – just for kicks. Here are some tricks to keep track of how long you spend in the shower:
- Time yourself with a kitchen-egg timer, stopwatch, or the shower coach – an electricity free timer that suctions onto your bathroom tiles.
- Put on a favorite album and figure out how long you’re in the shower based on the number and length of songs that play by the time you get out.
- Put the stopper in the tub and see how much water collects as you shower.
Doing these things would give you the awareness that can cause you to change your habits (often subliminally). Another is you can get a prime water savings. For every 30 seconds you shorten your shower, you’ll save up to 4 gallons of water. And freeing up local funds from east to west wastewater plants and drinking water systems spend about $4 billion each year to treat water.
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