Week 2

My second week went just as well as my first week did. I continued to take shortened, colder showers around six minutes long with half heat on the dial every night during the week. During this week I saved another 145 gallons of water and used half as much energy as I normally would have heating only half as much water as I did before to half the heat I was taking showers at before this project.

If I continue this habit for thirty days I will save 560 gallons of water. If I continue my new shorter shower habit for a year I will save around 6720 gallons of water! That's quite a bit! If everyone at the summit took 5 minutes off of their normal showering time as a group we could save 56,000 gallons of water in just one week. Not to mention the monetary savings if they took colder showers than normal which require less energy to heat and produce fewer greenhouse gasses. Since everyone's plumbing and heating systems are different the overall amount saved could vary but it would still provide a large impact. That's a pretty big impact if you think about it. It just goes to show even changing small things in your routine can greatly benefit the earth and its finite resources.

Statistics:
http://www.bu.edu/sustainability/what-you-can-do/ten-sustainable-actions/take-shorter-showers/

https://budgeting.thenest.com/much-money-can-taking-cold-showers-save-you-27557.html