If you've still got one of those massive shower heads that wastes truck loads of water, then it's time for an upgrade. You can pick up a water saving shower head these days for as little as $20 from Bunnings and they're a cinch to install. Most of the time you can just unscrew the old water waisting shower head and screw on the fab new water saving shower head. So what's stopping you?
Old style inefficient showerheads can use as much as 20 to 30 litres of water every minute while a AAA rated water saving one will only use around 9 litres of water per minute. You won't just be saving water either, you'll save energy as you'll be heating less hot water.
Go on, go buy a water saving shower head now!
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So how much will we save on this then? Waterwise as well as moneywise?
I think these water saving shower heads are a stupid idea. If we were dumb enough to waste all our water then we should suffer. NO WATER FOR ALL.
If you save 20 Litres a day, per person in your household, and let’s say you have (on avaerage) 3 people in your home, over a year you’d save around 22,000 Litres of water which equates to about $50 (based South East water’s pricing).
That would basically pay for your water saving shower head. Not a lot of money, but it’s more about the saving water. Imagine if every household did this.
There is also, of course, the energy saving as you’re not having to heat as much water for every shower. I’m not too sure how to calculate this cost - so if anyone has any ideas, let us know.
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