Which Uses Less Water: A Shower or a Bath? Green Plumbing Advice for Germantown & Montgomery County.

When it comes to conserving water in Germantown and Montgomery County, which is the better choice: a shower or bath? Well, let’s see.

The average bath uses between 30 to 50 gallons of water. By comparison, if you have an older style showerhead, it may be pumping out more than 5 gallons of water per minute. If that’s the case, then a 6-10 minute shower is right on par with bath water usage:  but it shouldn’t be.  You should be using less considerably less water to take a shower.

Put your Germantown showerhead to the test.

If you aren’t sure when your showerhead was installed—or you’re just curious now that we’ve brought it up!—you can perform a test that will let you know how much water your shower outputs per minute.

Grab a bucket that is marked off in gallons, and hold it under the showerhead. Turn on the shower and count the number of seconds that it takes for the bucket to fill to the gallon marking. If it takes less than 20 seconds for the bucket to fill then your showerhead is wasting water.

So what’s a careful home owner to do?  Exactly:  go out and purchase a low-flow showerhead replacement, and you could save up 3 gallons per minute. There are a variety of low-flow models available along with countless features to choose from.

There are however, two primary types of low-flow showerheads:  aerating and laminar-flow.  Aerating (not to be confused with “air!”) showerheads mix air and water to conserve water with no significant loss of pressure.  Laminar-flow models force water into small, individual streams. In this way, less water is used to create the same amount of pressure thereby making your shower just as water-efficient as it is time-efficient.

At Your 1 Plumber, our team of professionals “runneth over” with green plumbing products and ideas for every size and type of home.  Contact us today to learn more.

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