Save Water, Money and CO2
My Greener Home, the environmental company that saves you money, have launched a new product: the Eco Showerdrop. My Greener Home’s price is £11.95 incl. VAT.
The Eco Showerdrop helps you stop wasting water and energy in the shower. The Eco Showerdrop could save you £180 each year. It uses a digital display to show you the amount of water your shower is using, and when you have reached the recommended 35 litres of water. It can be installed in a matter of minutes by anyone.
We all think we are saving money having a shower, but how often have you been day dreaming and twenty minutes later, you have used up huge amounts of hot water.
A standard bath holds between 80 and 100 litres of water, and conventional wisdom suggests that we save water by taking showers instead of baths. Modern power showers can easily use over 20 litres of water each minute. That means that your shower could use up 100 litres of water in just five minutes. If you stand around contemplating the day ahead in these showers you will definitely be worse off than if you had a bath. The Eco Showerdrop wakes you up to the need to save water and money.
The NGO Waterwise did a survey at the end of 2007 in which they calculated that the average shower used around 64 litres of water. However Waterwise and leading water suppliers calculate that 35 litres is sufficient to have a really good shower. With different water pressures and different shower heads, the flow of water varies between showers so measuring time alone won’t tell you how much water has been used.
Using calculations verified by Waterwise and the Energy Saving Trust (which assume a 7.2 minute shower and 9 litres/minute flow rate), the Eco Showerdrop could save the average family of four £180 each year in water and water heating bills, and save 40,000 litres of water. That is the equivalent to reducing your carbon footprint by 2/3 of a tonne.
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