BATHROOM

Water is a fundamental factor to life. Truth be told, all humans take it for granted. According to BBC, one in three people admit that they leave the tap open while brushing their teeth. This wastes about twenty-four liters of water a day. In Arizona, citizens have not yet found a valid reason to save water. Slowly but surely our water resources are either disappearing and/or becoming contaminated. People’s mindsets are that we can not possibly run out of water because earth is an average of seventy-one percent water. Little do they know, only about one percent of that water is drinkable.

 

Creating a conscious about our daily water consumption in our homes is very important. Daily routines like washing your teeth, taking a shower, or simply using the restroom use up more water than you can imagine.  According to Conserve H2O, more than forty-five percent of our water use happens in our bathrooms.  Toilets use almost twenty-seven percent of that water.  In San Luis Arizona, most of our homes have new toilets, which use less water per flush. The problem now is that long showers and daily baths are becoming more common in our society.  The average shower lasts eight minutes. This may seem like a short shower for many of us, but a simple eight-minute shower uses about sixty-two liters of water.  An average full tub or bath uses eighty liters of water.