If you’ve been lecturing your kids on why having a wee in the shower is a major no-no, there may be a good reason to give that particular lesson a rest.
Why? Well, scientists believe going with the flow may not be such a bad thing after all. Gross? Yes. But environmentally speaking, having a wee while you wash could help you do your bit for conservation.
Stay with us here. A report in Mic explains that, depending on the age, make and model of your toilet, each flush can use up between seven and 31 litres of water per go.
“All mammals pee for approximately 21 seconds, according to Discover. Meanwhile, a standard shower head uses 2.5 gallons of water per minute. If your pee exits your urethra at the standard mammalian rate, around 0.875 gallons of water will leave your shower head in the time it takes you to finish peeing. Still, it’s less than a standard toilet flush.”
And that’s not all. Seeing as the water washes away the urine, you’ll also save on toilet paper. At 10 squares of paper per wipe, that shower pee will save you a full roll of toilet paper every 50 days.
Healthwise, there’s nothing particularly harmful about urine. It does contain bacteria, mostly picked up on the route through your lady bits, but a good rinse gets rid of this as fast as it zaps your shampoo and conditioner. In fact, Madonna once claimed that peeing in the shower cured her Athlete’s foot and hey, if it’s good enough for Madge…
Seeing as up to 80 per cent of Americans admit to doing it anyway, it seems it won’t be too much hassle to promote peeing in the shower to the squeamish 20 per cent.
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