Do Showers Really Save Water?

If you have a shower-bathtub combination, try this experiment: Close the drain, and shower as you normally do. I tried it, and my tub was filling up to near overflowing before I could finish my shower. I have always believed showers saved water, but I guess not. Off to the hardware store to get a low-flow shower head! Do I take longer showers than most, and this is the reason for my high usage? Try it for yourself if your plumbing is similar and report. I am curious if it's just me and my bad habit.

• Take navy showers. That is what saves water. A navy shower is when you only turn on the water to wash yourself off.

• In the end it comes down to a mathematical equation - volume of water per minute x minutes of running water.

• I did and found it used much less water than a bath.

• OP it is you. I tried this once and had about 3 inches of water in the tub.

• If you really want to save water, take a 5 minute shower twice a week and wipe your genitals off with moist towlettes the rest of the week.

• Thanks R3 R4 Do you use low-flow shower heads? If so, what kind?

  OP

• Only the golden ones.

• Yes. For a normal sized person.

• I think some of you must have huge bathtubs and/or 1.5 GPM shower heads and/or take 3-minute showers. What gives?

• Mostly I take baths, but can't be bothered fussing over how much bath/shower water I use.

• You gotta big ole pussy to wash, OP.

• My brother is a flat-out water buffalo -- twenty or thirty minutes minimum. He's always been this way. When he built his house, he installed an 80-gallon water heater -- that serious!

• Douching takes extra water.

• You will, r10, when gasoline costs less-per-gallon than water!

• I always take baths. It's Funner to play with my hole with toys that way

• If I'm washing my hair, especially during the summer, it takes a lot more time and water, but usually, I'm in and out of the shower in about three minutes.

  Ciaran