I survived a shower with a low-flow Shower head
Need to do more with less? How about doing the same with less? After literally years of procrastination, I finally got around to purchasing a low-flow shower head. It was a cheaper model -and I reserve the right to swap it out for another low flow model but it works just fine. I installed it in about 5 mins last night and took my first shower this morning.
Why bother? Well, some friends and I decided to go on a low Carbon diet. I bought the book and a low-flow shower-head was one of the few things I hadn’t yet done.
It wasn’t bad. There are other low-flow shower heads and, like I said, I might experiment a bit with more expensive one at some point, but the point here is I survived and still felt like you are supposed to feel after a shower.
What did you do for the environment today, and what are you planning on doing tomorrow?
I put in a cheap one after I bought my house last year and I’ve been perfectly happy with it.
The next purchase I am trying to get approval for is a dual flush toilet. .8 GPF or 1.6 GPF depending on your need
In answer to the question about what I did for the environment, yesterday I cleaned my bee hives and got them ready for a new colony. Today I pick up my bees and tomorrow, I re-hive them.
We’ve had a low-flow shower head for years, but I don’t do showers, I do baths. Saves water.
In regards to the toilet-if it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down. Saves water.
I’m surprised that in the area we live in, sitting on top of the largest supply of fresh water in the world, that the low-flow shower head is the way to go on Earth day. Of course, I’m not dissing it at all. Last year, we had an on-demand hot water system put in, so I forget that hot water is a larger issue for reducing waste.
What I wish I could do for Earth Day? Stop all the phantom energy loss in my house. I hate the fact that things that are “off” are still sucking volts.
The on demand hot water is also something I’m looking at as well.
Yes - we are sitting on top of 20% of the fresh water supply but that is not to be taken from granted. it is threatened with invasive species, is not recharged, is becoming polluted and so on.
Energy Vampires? yep. My next project.
It really is great. It’s really nice to have unlimited hot water. The downside is that it takes about 45 seconds for hot water to make it out of the tap in winter. Summer it’s a lot quicker. Other than that, the Rheem system we have rocks.
Agreed. We love ours, if that’s possible. Although, to save the planet I skipped the shower, didn’t flush and rode my bike to a gas station to photograph people filling their SUVs.
Hmmm….now what to do with all that silver from the film. I’ll think about that tomorrow.
P.S. I’m glad no one said they recycled yard debris and made a Dreamcatcher then I would be forced to exercise my Second Amendment rights and top off the compost pile with some gray matter.
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