It's amazing how much water we use

down home wrote:

dahkota wrote:
I took my first shower in a regular house (in over a year) last month. I couldn't get the water to shut off while soaping up and it became annoying as hell trying to get out of the stream of water and sad as I watched all that wasted water go down the drain. I vowed to have a water shut off in the shower in any S&B I may move into.

People gave me grief about the carbon footprint of our 'gas guzzler' house until I pointed out that we use 1/10 the water, 1/10 the heating and cooling, and 1/10 of the electricity they do. And we often have a better view.

In our Mh if you cut the water off, in the shower, you will either scald yourself or freeze yourself when you cut it back on.
The same in the showers in home.
So we don't do Navy showers.
There are four of us and one month we were hit with a bill for 19000 gallons or two full swimming pools or near it.
Comparing note here with with what others say, no way was it right.
We do a lot, of laundry, and use the hot tubs some.
A hundred gallons of fresh water, in the coach, I seem to remember lasted about two days and part, of another, one with at least one shower each per day plus laundry and cooking. We try not to limit time in the shower.

The shower shut offs in RV's "by law" don't shut the water completely off but, the slow it to a trickle. So, no scalding.

19000 gallons !!!! :E My brother has 500 hogs that weigh 250 pounds in his barn right now and that is all the water that he uses.

I don't know how to say this without it sounding "snarky" and I don't mean it to sound that way. But, you really need to learn some new habits. I suppose you live in LA too don't you. :B No wonder they have a water crisis.

Edit, as I read back through your post and mine I realize I don't know how many of you there are using water. ? That would make a difference .