That's about how much water is used on average every time you take a shower with a newer shower head installed in your home, with a limit of 2.5 gallons per minute. Twenty-five gallons of water, gone in ten minutes. At 2.5 quarts of water per day (the required amount of water to live) this would sustain a person for FORTY days. And I hate to say it, but when I manage a shower in 10 minutes, I'm feeling pretty proud. Or I'm extremely late for work. But this means that taking showers that last 30 minutes or more is an incredibly stupid and wasteful practice, and I'm sure we all have those days.
But it's not easy right? Who doesn't love a nice long, hot shower to wake you up in the morning, or to sanitize your body after a long day of work?
Think of it this way: if you had to choose between clean drinking water for the day or taking a long shower, the choice would be pretty obvious right? We might be far off from reaching that point, but the fact is our supply of clean water is not sustainable (at least at the current rates of our consumption), and at some point we will all have to make hard sacrifices if want water to live. Personally, I'd rather already be accustomed to using an appropriate amount of water instead of getting forced into using an insanely low amount, but that's just me.
Checkout this article from SmartPlanet and see how the Department of Energy Regulators are cracking down on home owners that have shower heads exceeding 2.5 gallons of water per minute. It's a start, but in no way a long term solution.
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