As you may know from my previous posts, I have been somewhat of a pig when it comes to taking baths. I typically have been taking 2 a day, but with this week’s challenge of conserving water, I have stopped. I only shower or bath once a day and no longer twice. I thought it would be interesting to see how much water will be saved by doing this.
I have found several different statistics for how much water a bath holds. The range I have found is from 25 gallons to 50 gallons. For the sake of this post, I am going to say that the average bath is 35 gallons of water and the rest of the bath displacement would be 15 gallons of glistening man bath filler (me).
I have been taking 2 baths a day and now I am only taking one. Given that 35 gallons is one bath:
35 gallons * 365 days = 12,775 gallons of water that I will be conserving in the future. Nearly 13,000 gallons of water!
What does 13,000 gallons equate to?
- Enough to keep a single person alive for almost a lifetime (assuming 8 cups/day and 72 year lifespan)
- About the amount of water to fill a 24’ round pool.
- According to this very unscientific answer, it would be the number of gallons cried by approximately 722 men in the span of their life. 650 men if they are lifetime Minnesota Viking fans.
In summary, it is a huge amount of water. These were the stats I could come up with in the time I had to work with, but please let me know in the comments area below if you have any extra information.
Wow, that’s amazing; I love the way you are working out these figures to give meaning to what you are doing.
Do you pay for what you use with water? or do you just pay an amount regardless of what you use.
To think you will save the amount of water needed to keep someone alive is awesome; well done you.
How are the sinuses?
Yes, we pay for what we use, but it is fairly inexpensive. My guess is that it will save me a dollar/month, but I could be wrong.
The sinuses are still there and working.
Thank you for the complement. It means a lot!
Good for you!. water is a precious resource.
I love taking baths with Mr. Bubbles.
I am going to try and only take one a week now.