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Why You Should Pee In The Shower
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:14 pm
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You should be peeing in your shower – not just for the liberating, rebellious adrenaline rush that you may or may not get from it, but because you could save the planet, just a little bit, by doing so. Let’s think about it for a moment, mathematically. Every single time you pee, you have to flush the toilet. Whereas those foul smelly poops do need considerable amounts of water to send them off to the mysterious aquatic underworld below, urine barely needs any encouragement once the flushing begins. Although many toilet flushes can be stopped part of the way through their noisy waterfalls, most can’t, and that’s wasting a heck of a lot of water.
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An average flush for a modern, Western-style toilet uses 6 liters (1.6 gallons) of water, and the average adult pees about seven times every 24 hours. That means that each day of weeing takes 42 liters (11.1 gallons) of toilet water to flush away. Assuming that people urinate the same way every single day, this means in just one year, the average person uses 15,330 liters (4,050 gallons) of toilet water. There are 319 million people in the US, so assuming they all pee the same – which they don’t, but we’re making broadly accurate assumptions here – that’s about 4.9 trillion liters (1.3 trillion gallons) of water flushed away in the name of urine every 365 days. For comparison, that’s like flushing away 1.97 million Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth per annum. Now, if you peed in the shower, you’d massively reduce this figure. Say that this means that you only pee in a toilet six, not seven times, per day. This means that in just one year, you’d save 2,190 liters (579 gallons) of toilet water. Extrapolating this to the entire US population, that’s 699 billion liters (185 billion gallons) of water saved.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:17 pm to jmarto1
Reminds me of my favorite Captain Planet episode
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:20 pm to jmarto1
Gonna take pollution down to zero
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:20 pm to jmarto1
So the assumption is that you piss while you're washing yourself. Otherwise, the 30 seconds you piss would have to include an extra 30 seconds of shower water. That's kind of weird.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:20 pm to pleading the fifth
Not that I really needed a reason, but thanks
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:21 pm to jmarto1
I think it's ridiculous that we use 1.6 gal to flush ~20 oz away
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:21 pm to jmarto1
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Every single time you pee, you have to flush the toilet.
If it's yellow, let it mellow.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:21 pm to jmarto1
I've begun storing my urine in empty Gatorade bottles for this upcoming football season.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:22 pm to jmarto1
How much water is wasted in the shower because of it being longer because of the pee? Is the water wasted? Where does shower water go? I just realized I don't know how showers work. Fml.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:24 pm to jmarto1
Just go outside to piss. Even less water used.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:24 pm to jmarto1
Writer is verbose. Just say convenient.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:25 pm to jmarto1
Been doing my part for 30 years.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:26 pm to jmarto1
I've doubled down-
Squishing turdlets through the floor drain grate is good fun.
Squishing turdlets through the floor drain grate is good fun.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:35 pm to jmarto1
Yellow..mellow
Brown...flush it down
Brown...flush it down
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:38 pm to jmarto1
A few months after Katrina, I had to go do an audit at a warehouse that still did not have electricity back on, and running water was pretty sketchy. The toilet in the mens room had a sign that said, "if it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down."
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:49 pm to jmarto1
Pee in every shower no matter where
Posted on 6/9/16 at 11:56 pm to Lionnation1993
I have a friend that swears peeing on your feet in the shower prevents athletes foot. He's not the smartest fellow, but he swears it's true.
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