How much water do you use?

Tin Foil Hat

We're a family of four and we use about 60-65 liters of water per person per day. We're not wasetful, but we don't go out of our way to save shower water for the toilet cisterns either.
Are we good or bad?
If you have a meter, you can check your usage on your Irish water account.

Conservatory

They are gonna start charging for it soon I’m using as much as I can before they do.

GBX

Couple of mug fulls

Mark Horgan

We have reduced our water consumption by 50% after telling teenage son to go to the river to go fiddling with himself instead of the shower.

Gael23

How long before Irish Water start distributing butt plugs to reduce toilet flushing?😄

Omackeral

I'll dust an old one off here.


About three fiddy.

Surreptitious

I bathe in milk and drink champagne so no need for water round these parts.

Hector Bellend

Mark Horgan wrote: »

We have reduced our water consumption by 50% after telling teenage son to go to the river to go fiddling with himself instead of the shower.

You cant beat a good old nature ****

Pauliedragon

My wife used to tell me us men were useless at multi tasking so to save water during a drought I started pissing in the shower. No flushing needed, water saved, what's the problem?

Yer Da sells Avon

I shower every day, often twice in this weather, but I usually switch the shower off for a moment while shampooing my hair or applying a lustrous layer of shower gel to my glistening naked body.

Also, with regard to toilet flushing - if it's yellow, I will invariably let it mellow. And if it's brown, I make a doctor's appointment because that could be a sign of a urinary tract infection or a kidney disorder.

PARlance

Hapax Legomenon wrote: »

I shower every day, often twice in this weather, but I usually switch the shower off for a moment while shampooing my hair or applying a lustrous layer of shower gel to my glistening naked body.

You waste more water by turning it off and on again!

Mark Horgan

Showering twice a day should be reported as this leads to more waste than using a hose pipe. Could you not use wipes or something to clean a bit of sweat or moist?

Hector Bellend

Omackeral wrote: »

I'll dust an old one off here.


About three fiddy.

Foe fiddy yo.

GreeBo

PARlance wrote: »

You waste more water by turning it off and on again!

Unless your shower pump runs on water, this is incorrect.

Sprinter Sacre

I wash myself with a rag on a stick

monkeybutter

GreeBo wrote: »

Unless your shower pump runs on water, this is incorrect.

Not true, if it were an immersion then you could set the temp, and it would remain consistent when you shut off the flow and start it again. This would be fine.

But if you were to use an electrical shower, they turn to cold when you turn them back on before warming up slowly to temp, so you'd waste a load of water there.

annascott

Mark Horgan wrote: »

Showering twice a day should be reported as this leads to more waste than using a hose pipe. Could you not use wipes or something to clean a bit of sweat or moist?

I hope you are joking.

About 1700l / month over the last 12 months but I've been away for 2 months so I suppose 2000l/month would be my usage normally.

60l/day ish.

I'm surprised at that tbh, I thought it would be lower.

Yer Da sells Avon

Mark Horgan wrote: »

Showering twice a day should be reported as this leads to more waste than using a hose pipe. Could you not use wipes or something to clean a bit of sweat or moist?

Two quick showers a day isn't a waste of water.