Why can't we use salt water for showering.??

Question

I am all for saving water on our planet because only about 1% of it is healthy, easily-accessed fresh water. But, to help our crisis, why don't we just use fresh water for the things that we really need it for.?? Like drinking and cooking. We don't really have to waste so much on agriculture and household uses, do we.??

Answer 1

you can use it, but if you do it dries skin out REALLY badly.

Answer 2

have you ever got salt water in your eyes? owch, you could probably go blind from that too...

Answer 3

It drys your skin and hair out really bad.... and if you get it in your eyes it really burns...

Answer 4

Yes and no, salt does a lot of damage to things. We could shower in salt water but we would have to have special shampoo and soaps to get ride of the damage to our skin.

We would have to redesign household devices so that salt doesnt build up as salt does tend to leave deposits of itself everywhere.

We couldnt grow crops with it as the salt in the water stops it being absorbed by plants (mostly)

If you want to be practical and save the earth get a water tank. catch the rain water and drain water and use it for your toilet, car and garden.

follow all the basic rules of preserving water, showering instead of bathing, using only as much water as needed in a kettle etc

Have a second tank for rain water with a natural filtration system, use this for cooking and cleaning, and have the main water supply connected to this incase it runs low.

Simple :) and if done right practically free!

Answer 5

salt water is like an acid to crops and kills them so its got to be fresh water.

you cant use salt water for showering because the crystals will stick to your skin once you've finished and youll get alot of friction around your armpits adn groin... also salt water stings when it gets into your eyes

hope i could help

Answer 6

cuz it could take away some of our bodies natural water...and like dude said its sticky

Answer 7

if you want to wash yourself in salt water it would be like taking a bar of soap too the beach and washing ur self at the beach! and it would hurt your eyes heaps

Answer 8

you have never taken a salt water shower, have you? go and take one, then come tell me if you feel clean....or just grimy. not to mention your hair! ugh! that just wouldn't work.

as for agriculture, you can't water plants with salt water! thats just not going to work! rainwater is filtered and seperated from salt, as should water put on plants otherwise...where else could people 'save' water? have you ever used a low-flow toilet? they use 50% less water per flush...but you have to flush them 20 times to get rid of the...'waste'

some things just can't be compomised on...perhaps better water filtering tecnology is the way to go....

Answer 9

We don't need to use salt water for showering.  You would feel much dirtier after a salt water shower!  Not to mention it would do bad things to the microbes that live on our skin if we did that long term.

What houses really need is a way to use the grey water.  Grey water is the water from your sinks, dishwasher, shower, and washmachine.

How awsome would it be if your home had a holding tank in it, and used the grey water to flush the toilets, instead of using clean drinking water to flush?!  Grey water should also go to water any plantings outside.

If every new home was designed to do that, we'd really conserve our fresh drinking water!

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Answer 10

You can use salt water for cleaning, flushing the toilet.  The problem is how do you keep the waters separate to avoid contamination.  Your home would have to have dual water distribution systems to facilitate.  If you are thinking of using salt water from the ocean it is so hard, impossible to shampoo, and so salty you would need to use a fresh water chaser to rinse.

You're welcome!!

Answer 11

because salt water is sticky...

Answer 12

Two problems. First, you need special soap for use in salt water. Second, what will happen to the water that goes down the drain? After treatment, the water is discharged into streams. The salt would kill off some of the critters living in the stream, many of them at the base of the food chain. You would have a similar problem with agricultural use. As it is, irrigating with fresh water results in the buildup of salts in the soil. Using salt water would kill off the crops even faster. Using fresh water is hardly a waste. We just have to get it clean after use. Remember that the water you drink may have come from the toilet of someone living upstream. And what you flush is drunk by someone downstream of you.

Answer 13

i love the sea water. it makes my hair amazzzingggg.

so yeah i'll agree with you there.

Answer 14

salt water is actually

good for ur body

please answer mines http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 15

we woukd stink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 16

Salt water has many bacteria in it. More than fresh water.  

Answer 17

yes salty water is used for bathing like ion black sea it can also be used for flushing agriculture