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Don't sing in the shower
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This action has been done 3,033 times which means 75,825 litres of water have been saved in songless speedy showers.
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The average shower lasts seven minutes and uses 35 litres of water. A shorter shower of just two minutes uses just 10 litres, meaning 25 litres of water saved per short shower.
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The average shower last seven minutes and uses 35 litres of water. Actually, two minutes is all it takes to soak up, wash down, scrub your armpits, do your rude buts and still haven't time to do your hair. Try shorter showers. Save your singing for the rain.
(PS Shorter showers also mean longer lie-ins. Which is almost a good as saving the world.)
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about not singing in the shower
- A bath typically uses around 80 litres, while a short shower can use as little as a third of that amount.
- Beware since many power-showers may actually use more than a bath. You can minimise your water use by reusing your bathwater to water your houseplants or garden.
- The average person in the UK uses 150 litres of water a day. This takes into account cooking, cleaning, washing and flushing.
- If every UK home reduced their hot water use by just 5%, the CO2 saving would be equivalent to taking nearly 600,000 cars off the roads.
- Over a quarter of our carbon emissions from our homes come from water use and so being more water efficient will help cut our contribution to climate change in the future.
- 2/5 of world population already faces water shortages, and 1.1 billion people in the developing world do not have access to a minimal amount of clean water.
- People in rich countries use ten times more water than people in poor countries. Even in poor countries the rich can use as much as several hundreds of litres of water a day, and the poor have access to as little as 20 litres per person per day.
- Water isn't running out - the water cycle is continuous, but with the increasing population there are more of us to share the water supply.
- Desalination turns salt water from oceans into clean drinking water - but this process uses lots of energy, so can worsen the effects of climate change.
- The amount of water we use in the UK is not sustainable, we have to use less on a daily basis to ensure our supply doesn't run out. Water consumption is also linked to climate change - because treating, pumping and heating water produces carbon dioxide - which is a greenhouse gas.
- You can also try turning off the tap when you brush your teeth, and filling a plastic bottle with water and put it in the fridge. This way when you want a cold glass of water you can simply open the fridge rather than running the tap until the water runs cold. Put a water butt in the garden to catch rainfall and use this to water the garden rather than using this water from a hosepipe. You can also clean cars and windows with this water.
- A running tap uses 6 litres of water a minute, a shower can use anywhere between 9 - 45 litres per minute, a hosepipe uses as much as 1000 litres per hour.
- Toilet flushing accounts for 30% of our daily water use - with old toilets using as much as 14 litres per flush compared to new dual flush models which use as little as 2.6 and 4 litres per flush.
- Fixing a dripping tap can save as much as 5000 litres a year - if everyone in the UK fixed their dripping taps we would save enough water to supply 120,000 for one day
- About one third of the water each person uses on a daily basis is wasted - it runs straight down the plughole or down the toilet without being used.
- Despite having a seemingly wet climate some parts of the UK are experiencing water shortages, with the lowest rainfall, groundwater and reservoir levels for decades.
- The energy used to pump, treat and heat the water in the average family's home produces the carbon equivalent of a return flight from London to New York.
- If each person in England and Wales made a saving of 22 litres, this would equate to a saving of 51.48 litres per household (working on the assumption of an average of 2.34 people per household in England and Wales. There are approximately 54 million water consumers in England and Wales.
- The water companies serve approximately 23 million households in England and Wales. Across 23 million households, a saving of 51.48 litres per day, would equate to total savings of 1184 millions litres (Ml) per day. If the average person in a household was using 125 litres per day, these water savings would be enough to serve a domestic population of more than 9.5 million people. This would be more than enough water to supply the needs of London (7,556,900) Birmingham (1,010,200), and Cardiff (321,000), which have a combined population of 8,888,100
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mommy i did it love u mommy 23 February 2010, 14:58dont be l8
im always late for school due to singing in the shower, now that ive stopped im not as late and i have more time to do my hair, and i waste less water. 12 February 2010, 19:43my friends don't shower.
my friend adam mcelroy hasn't had a shower since october 2007, all due to this action. he said he washes in approximately 30 seconds, but i don't believe he getys everywhere clean, if you catch my drift ;) 01 February 2010, 14:11Tiger Style - shower technique
I have been taking cold showers since some point in college (8-10 yrs ago). Initially, I wanted to become stronger, but realized that my showers are shorter (save the planet), I feel AWAKE, dont need to use soap frequently (because I rub my skin vigorously to make it warm). 08 January 2010, 23:09yay
i dont have a shower so i sing in the bath instead, and i fill the bath up to the top and some water splashes on the floor and i let some water out and fill it up again 09 November 2009, 13:33Don't sing in the shower video
06 November 2009, 14:16lah lah lah
i never sing in the shower any more 03 November 2009, 19:36I did it! :)
This was a stupidly hard thing for me not to do but I did it! 29 October 2009, 19:07i did this
i stopped showering, i havent showered since christmas.it's ok though because i wear lots and lots of lynx. 07 October 2009, 08:13
Cold...
Since our boilers broken we've had no hot water for a few days - my cold showers have been no more than 2 min long, its a great singing deterrent! :( 18 July 2009, 13:17A revelation...
Sing whilst you get dry!!! Genius isn't it? 13 July 2009, 20:04did it
wow omg it is really time consuming the singing :) 02 July 2009, 17:33ive stopped taking showers!!!
i waste soo much water taking showers ,ive completly stopped taking them.sometimes i stink like **** but i have to live with it to save planet earth!!!!! 06 March 2009, 04:37