Do you use more water having a shower or a bath?

Question

I'd like to know because I'm looking for ways to save water.

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Answer 1

I think showers use less water, especially considering that you can buy at your local hardware store shower heads that conserve water but do not make your shower any less enjoyable. So long as you don't shower for excessive periods of time.

Answer 2

If you take a proper shower, i.e. get wet, turn water off, soap up, rinse, turn water off, dry off. A bath would require 85% more water. Ask anyone who has served in the Navy how they take showers. Most people allow themselves to be hypnotized by the shower head. Additionaly in most cases, homes with basements can recycle that gray water to irrigate with, same said for bath water - any gray water.

Answer 3

well using bath tab obviously use lots of water especially if you soak yourself like as if you are a clothe( it was a common for western Culture). In my local (Malaysia or SEA region country) I think use the instant hot shower is better to save water, and the best way to do so. if you use the shower it will rinse the soap all the way down instead of restoring in the bath tab. After you rinse your body full of use the water will be in the tab so for me it was a waste cause youthrow away the sapy water and refill it again, and who know you might miss a spot at your place which are most smelly one LOL!!! Using Shower however well you have to stand and that makes tired the most instead of enjoying. However it saves more water most because the soapy water will gone to the drain instead in the tab. using shower are really common around my local and we have no problems saving water this way. but what about you forgot to turn the water off when there are a sudden water cut off while you showering and end up going to realitive place or friend's house to shower instead? when you got back you realise that your house are flooded. LOL!! well it was the user's that need to blame and it is same aply to the tab as well. It is all depand on the user themself to decide what to do. And there are one more thing to say, Using a pale to take a bath also a good way t save water because it help you organize while showering tat is also one of our common thing to do as well in my local. I hope i can help you much. these are the advice that i really think the best to save water.

Answer 4

no i am always in a hury while shower....wastage may b on holidays!

Answer 5

Take a shower with the drain plugged.  When you're done, you can see how much water you've used.  Compare that to your bath water level and you've got your answer.  You also have dirty feet now, however, so be sure to rinse off!

Answer 6

The average bath tub holds 50 - 80 gallons of water.  An average shower head uses about 3 gallons per minute of water.  For under $20 you can purchase a shower head that outputs 1.2 gallons per minute of water.

So let's do the math.

The average bath uses 50 gallons of water.

A 10 minute shower with an average shower head uses 30 gallons of water.

If you purchase a low flow shower head (they have them at Walmart and Home depot) you can use as little as 10 gallons per shower.

Showers generally will use less water than baths.

Answer 7

I think having a bath uses up more water

Answer 8

I think..on average..more is used on the bath. Our idea is to use what you need,period.....we dug the well, so we'll use what we need and thank the good Lord for the water.That  should suffice! I mean after all it goes right back outta the house,into the ground,only to be recycled by God ,right back into the sky anyway, right? Maybe I over simplify it, that must be why I'm not in a huge panic like all the little Green people!

Answer 9

I use more in the shower.

Answer 10

showers because when you take a ten minute shower you'll use  at least 30 gallons of water and a bathtub holds at least 50 gallons of water.but if you think about it like this baths you run the water and then you bathe in it,however when your in the shower the water keeps going and going(unless you take a shower the navy way)until your done with your shower.I'm confusing myself soooo......i would say a shower uses less water.as to trying to find ways to use less water...you can turn the water off when your not using it and turn it on when you need to use it.

hope this helped =D

I'm a total environmentalist(yay)