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?
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To be honest, most of my shower thoughts are actually “shitting on the toilet” thoughts.
My city has more water than we can ever use, so I’m going to continue having shower thoughts, tyvm.
I wish I had that.
Come live in San Francisco!
“Oh no, California is wracked by drought! I mean except San Francisco…”
“Oh no, giant heat wave is pummeling the West Coast, except San Francisco which is still 65 degrees…”
“Oh no, giant wildfires are threatening everywhere except San Francisco which is surrounded by water on 3 sides…”
“Oh no, housing is becoming unaffordable everywhere, except San Francisco! …because it was already unaffordable in SF…oops…”
Eh, it comes at a cost of only seeing the sun for like 2-3 months per year.
So you sleep like a bear?
Can you ship some of that water to me please?
I would if I could!
Maybe true but water is essentially free around here apartment doesn’t charge we have plenty of water. 30 min showers are minimum for me
30mins!? Surely you are much faster being bald and all.
I’m blessed in this regard by living in the rainiest city in Europe. It has it’s downsides, but hey… free water.
Bergen, or is there a Scottish city that has more rain?
Wales by any chance?
I’m the problem. I take 30 min+ showers. It’s my best place to cry and think about my life.
Dad?
Yes?
I don’t use a shower, rather, I have a bucket (or two) of water and a dipper. I can ruminate and think about things while giving myself a thorough scrubbing, and not consume any water.
I can take as much time as I need (much to the irritation of people I live with) without consuming any more water.
The Reassurance Bucket thoughts.
It’s bucket time!
And then he bucketed all over the place
All of our dams are at 100% and overflowing, if anything we need to use more water to reduce overflowing
I kind of miss having a nice, long, hot, thoughtful shower…
But now you can feel responsible and morally superior to the silly water-wasters
I envy silly water wasters because I miss my long thoughtful hot showers. But I do admit my newfound superiority is amazing!
They could just open it up
Ye let’s flood everyone living in the flood plain
Would anyone notice?
Fk living in a flood plain under a resevouir. I think I would die a little from stress each time it rained.
Ikr, and to think I almost moved there
We’ve been getting tons of rain here, but we are still in an outdoor water ban.
Between 8-5, no lawn watering (except golf courses and businesses), no washing your car (except at a car wash), no watering your ornamental plants (except for farms and garden stores). No filling your pool (even a kiddie pool) or running through the sprinkler (except at the water park).
It’s not because of drought, but because one of our water sources is offline due to elevated PFAS, so they are blending water from other reservoirs, and those sources combined can’t make up the extra demand.
And also protecting businesses by making sure we can’t wash our own cars or lollygag through our own sprinklers. Gotta pay for that privilege.
We have to pay…for the privilege…of lollygagging through our sprinklers.
I get the lawn part. I hate lawns. But my yard is also a barren mud pit. I gotta put something down. Trying for mostly clover and other plants that don’t need a ton of water, but they still need to stay moist to germinate and start off, and that’s real tough to do if you can’t water it during the hottest parts of the day. I don’t really care what grows as long as it holds the dirt together and it’s comfortable to walk on barefoot.
PFAS are naaasty
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
I live in the wettest region of south west australia nearby the historically coldest, wettest town in the state. We normally get 9 wet months a year but we’re are half way through the season and so far only had 1.5 wet months.
Clime change deniers: this is fine
a rainy part of the UK
Well that’s a bit redundant, isn’t it?
Okay, fine, rainier part
Innit?
bruv
Oi, you got a loicense for that?
My telly is not connected. I only use it for watching downloads.
Dam
Nah that’s in the Netherlands
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…
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 live somewhere with modern infrastructure
Little known fact that modern pipes can summon water out of nothing
No amount of infrastructure fixes a drought lmao
Yes they do. At least they’re working on it, like more and bigger basins, less waste and spilage, better throughput, etc.
And then you get a drought that lasts longer than your infrastructure is able to handle and you’re still fucked
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.
I did the math for Socal the last major drought, and normal people using water was like 2-5% of the water usage. And that includes lawns and stuff. Farming was the vast majority of water usage.
Are there any Nestle water extraction plants in SoCal?
They typically over extract and under report too I heard.
Yeah that’s like saying the gas in your car comes from a hole in the ground.
Resource extraction is never free.
It would cost around $0.0025 to pump enough water for a shower. It’s not free but it’s a negligible cost.
The cost is that you deplete the aquifer. Generally speaking, water pumped out of the ground doesn’t replenish (except on geologic time scales). That’s what I meant by the fossil fuel comparison. It’s not like taking water from a stream or a lake replenished by snowmelt. Once that aquifer is dry, it’s dry, and the land becomes dead.
Hopefully some of my pee from the septic tank makes it over to my well then.
We just had our dishwasher connected to our rainwater tank so maybe I could justify a few minutes for c/showerthoughts now.
To absolutely minimise the water usage you could do a more old school “shower” by just putting some water in a bucket with a sponge.
- Put some water on your body with a quick sponge rinse.
- Apply soap.
- Use sponge to rinse off soap.
Then later use the bucket as toilet refill.
One way to avoid wasting water is to turn off the water while scrubbing. Only use it to rince yourself before putting on soap or to get rid of soap!
I have both a shut off near the mixer and on the handle and I love it.
Now that would be great!
