My city is in the middle of the worst drought in recorded history. My showers are typically under 2 minutes and I have to shower with a bucket to catch otherwise wasted water to use to flush the toilet. I also shut the water down when I am wet enough so I can scrub myself without having unneeded water flowing then start it back up to rinse.
Plus, water is damn expensive!
Who here really has the time to stand, think and waste in the shower?
Well I live in a rainy part of the UK, and we basically had rain all month, so longer showers are probably more likely helping avoid the reservoir flooding over here
I guess the one upside to this situation is our water isn’t even metered, we just pay a flat rate every quarter
a rainy part of the UK
Well that’s a bit redundant, isn’t it?
Okay, fine, rainier part
Innit?
So, when you take a shower, all you think is “scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub, rinse, rinse, rinse, rinse”?
When I shower, it’s all pretty automatic and muscle memory kinds of actions. My mind wanders all over the place, usually while listening to music /podcasts /audio books, but rarely do I think about the actual act of bathing.
Thoughts taken:
Is the water running into the bucket when heating?
Is the water warming yet so I can get my head under comfortably and wet it to get shampoo in?
Quick, get the shampoo rub it in before I need to add cold so I don’t get burnt.
Water is perfect now, that’s nice. Turn and rub it in.
Is it warm enough in the bathroom so I can afford to turn off water and lather myself?
Ok, now i’m lathered, let’s get those hard to reach places.
Turn on the water. Try to aim for taps to be at the same position so I don’t get burnt. (I have temperature variation from solar hot water)
Rinse, quick, let’s rinse. Dont fall over the bucket Gnugit!
Turn off taps now and quick, dry your hands so you can reply to Sprunt on lemmy.
Oh, the shower timer only says ~1/4 of 4 minutes this time, that was efficient.
Hmm, maybe I can finally make a post to c/showerthoughts…
My city has more water than we can ever use, so I’m going to continue having shower thoughts, tyvm.
I still have trauma from growing up during a drought. Technically I still live in a dry climate but it isn’t as bad now.
Take care
I feel for those in arid climates that can wait literally years for rain. Luckily here where we normally get 9 months of rain we are still looking at about 3-4 do there will be no worries about collecting rain water to survive.
Who here really has the time to stand, think and waste in the shower?
People not in a drought. It’s been quite wet here in Switzerland recently :-D
I believe you’re looking for thoughtsaboutshowers.
But… Thoughts about showers aren’t also shower thoughts?
Only if they happen in the shower, and there’s no way you had time to think about all that during a drought.
My water comes from a hole in the backyard and it’s free.
In my city the water comes from underground too. The problem arises when there is no rain and cleared land produces more runoff than absorbtion.
Coupled with heavy use by people ground water levels are reduced. This not only affects us but trees and plants that rely on these water levels will die off.
However, as the other commenter mentioned, normal citizen use and its affect on this is negligible. It’s when you have industrial water extraction that is the real problem.
We just had our dishwasher connected to our rainwater tank so maybe I could justify a few minutes for c/showerthoughts now.
Dad?
Yes?
Water isn’t that expensive right? Heating the water is what makes it expensive.
We have a solar water heater so the heating is next to free.
$55aud/month currently for the water we use.
Were getting one soon as well and adding an electric boiler to work with our solar panels.
Water is only €1.13/1000L here so showering costs about 1 cent a minute water wise.
It is very expensive in dry places with less water. Where I live there it is a tiered system where the more water you use the more expensive it becomes. Right now we aren’t in a drought so the tiers are quite large but when it starts becoming dry then the tier shrinks and water prices go up. They are put laws in place that only allow you to water your lawn during specific times. The city also runs programs to get people to plant native grasses that will do well with low amounts of water.
Is not about the cost…
