Having a very good shower is one of life’s pleasures. So switching to an energy-saving shower is often met with skepticism.
From our experience, when doing home assessments, many Australians would rather put up with catastrophic climate change than put up with a second rate shower.
Well it doesn’t have to come to that. It’s all in the science of how water is delivered. With older shower heads most of the water never touches your body, just goes down the drain unused.
Amongst the confusing array of shower heads that are on the market we have picked one (pictured) that gives you a ‘bloody good shower’ whilst using less than half the energy of older technology. We have bulk ordered the one pictured (click here for details) and will be offering them to eligible homes as part of our climate project.
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Have just done some sums on this. These figures are based on a 3 person household, each person having one shower per day at 7 minutes each. (If 7 sounds a bit high, take into account teenagers who have much longer showers.)
Water saving:
Replacing a normal shower head with one of these would result in water saving of approx 90,000 litres per year.
Energy saving:
On same usage this amounts to 1,800 kilowatt-hours in a year
Money saving:
Approx $250 per year
Compare this water saving with, say, the prohibitive cost of installing a water tank, costing several hundred dollars.
Changing over a shower head is probably the most cost effective thing a person / household can do to reduce their water and energy footprints.
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