If you consider peeing in the shower some kind of crime against hygiene, you might want to rethink as dabbling in, er, golden showers, could in fact save the planet.
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Unlike number twos, urine needs hardly any help getting down drains, so every time you flush a pee you’re unnecessarily wasting water.
In fact, a modern Western toilet uses around 1.6 gallons of water to flush,which means that (if we assume an average adult pees roughly 7 times in 24 hours), 11.1 gallons per day are needed to flush that urine away.
That’s 4,050 gallons a year and, across the US, makes for 1.3 trillion gallons of water flushed every year, or 1.97 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Simply by peeing in the shower once a day and cutting your daily flushes down to 6 instead of 7, you could save 579 gallons of toilet water — across the US population, thats 185 billion gallons saved.
Just because it comes out of your taps doesn’t mean the world has plentiful water resources so do the planet a favor (and, y’know, liberate yourself) — pee in the shower.
And if you’re really keen you can give up flushing urine altogether, but that’s a whole different story.