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There oughta be a law!
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GERMS EVERYWHERE
BeoPuppy:
The kid loves the tub. He gets to play with the duckies and with the puzzle pieces and be generally adorable.
Tub stays.
nekowafer:
I don't really wash when taking a bath. It's all about laying there in scented water and relaxing. So no soap is used!
Jace:
I'm too tall for most bathtubs and also I live with 2 other dudes so our bathtub is pretty consistently not okay for bathing in.
They have long hair too so there's just long hairs all over the goddamn place.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 08 Nov 2012, 04:45 ---Baths don't waste water! At least, a medium-full bath uses less water than a long shower.
--- End quote ---
You would have to be taking very long showers for this to be true. The average modern bath has a capacity of around 200 litres. Some old baths (like Carl's Lusitania) had capacities up to around 500 litres. A modern efficient shower-head has a flow-rate of around 10 litres per minute even on a mains-pressure water system of the sort installed most houses in Sydney. An Australian "three-star" shower-head is certified to have a flow-rate under 9 litres per minute. Assuming you have a 200 litre bath, and "medium fill" it with 150 litres of water, you'd need to be taking showers lasting in excess of 15 minutes to exceed the bath's water consumption. Obviously a 100 litre bath is roughly equivalent to a 10 minute shower, and so on.
I have actually measured the water used for a nice luxurious "Hollywood shower" in my own bathroom, leaving the water running throughout and including washing/conditioning my hair, at about 70 litres. I normally follow (loosely) the "Navy shower" system of turning the water off while I'm soaping up.
I do know that in Britain you don't have to be as conscious about water-consumption as we do down here during our periodic droughts, and that Britain produces on average much less CO2 per kW than cheap coal guzzling Australia, so these issues are perhaps less urgent, but still: "Think global, act local!"
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