Which is worse..?

Question

a ten minute shower using cold water

or a 5 minute shower using hot water

Answer 1

This depends greatly on the efficiency of your water heater and the source of your water (city or private well or natural spring, etc)  All of these things effect both the "waste" of water and the amount of energy required to provide hot water.

From another angle, are you assigning more moral power to conversation of personal funds (i.e. how much it will cost you) or cost to the system and environment as a whole?

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to respond to your latest clarification; generally a hot shower would "waste" more energy.  Simply taking a longer shower (if cold) doesn't cause water to cease to exist. Water treatment plants are fairly efficient in terms of energy cost per gallon (or cubic foot) of water processed and "cleaned." The best solution is to keep the set temperature on your water heater as low as tolerable so that you aren't wasting energy keeping the water hot even when you're not using it.

Answer 2

for me it depends on the weather out side if it is summer hot is worse and vise versa  but most of the time i perfer a hot shower

Answer 3

if you meen freezing cold and boiling hot i would go for freezing cold

Answer 4

A five minute hot shower it could burn you!

Answer 5

10 min shower using cold water

you could get sick

Answer 6

5 minute shower using hot water

the heat from the hot water can burn your skin if you stay in too long

Answer 7

hot water because you could damage u're skin.

Answer 8

i would say a 5 minute shower using hot water. it could give you 3rd degree burns. which severly hurts.

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Answer 9

It depends on the horizontal axis! Furthermore, what temperature are you talking about. Lastly, do you want coleslaw or a beverage with that?

Answer 10

i think the 10 minute one it's using more water

Answer 11

I would want 10 minutes in cold water, because the hot water would burn but the cold is harmless.