So Aucklanders are being asked to save water,
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12245726
Funny that as I thought the Waikato was sufficiently supplying our needs now but I digress.
“The council controlled organisation is asking residents to take shorter showers and turn taps off while brushing teeth as a precaution”.
Who here runs a tap for 2 minutes continuously whilst brushing their teeth? If so why? What is the reasoning behind this? It must be fairly commonplace for this sort of advice to be given out at national level but I have never understood the background behind such an illogical practise.
I also find that trying to lather up under a running shower makes no sense – so I turn off the water after a minute or so, apply shower gel to exfol gloves, scrub, then turn on shower again to rinse off. Much the same way I wash my car I suppose. But as such I feel I don’t need to reduce my showering time as the water isn’t running the whole time.
But again I have to ask – if you are one of those the advice is aimed at: showering for 10mins continuously under running water, how/why does that work for you? Is it a matter of keeping warm whilst lathering up and scrubbing – i.e. you keep the hot water on but just step out of the flow?