You should bepeeing 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 small flake , by doing so .

Let ’s cerebrate about it for a moment , mathematically . Every single time you take a leak , you have to flush the toilet . Whereas those foul smelly crap do need considerable amounts of piddle to send out them off to the occult aquatic underworld below , urine barely needs any encouragement once the flushing begins . Although many lavatory outpouring can be stopped part of the way through their noisy waterfalls , most ca n’t , and that ’s wasting a heck of a lot of water .

Anaverage flushfor a modern , Western - elan toilet uses 6 liters ( 1.6 gallon ) of water supply , and theaverage grownup peesabout seven times every 24 hours . That means that each day of weeing takes 42 liters ( 11.1 gallons ) of bathroom water to flush away . Assuming that people urinate the same way every single 24-hour interval , this mean in just one year , the middling person uses 15,330 liters ( 4,050 gallons ) of stool pee .

There are319 millionpeople in the US , so adopt they all pee-pee the same – which they do n’t , but we ’re do loosely exact assumption 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 Olympian - sized swimming pools ’ Charles Frederick Worth per annum .

Now , if you peed in the shower , you ’d massively quash this figure . Say that this mean that you only pee in a privy six , not seven times , per twenty-four hour period . This means that in just one year , you ’d economize 2,190 liters ( 579 gallons ) of toilet water . interpolate this to the entire US population , that ’s 699 billion liter ( 185 billion gallons ) of water save .

Partly thanks to human beings - made climate change , and part thanks to inefficient use of piss resource , urine provision around the world are run fantastically small . So go on , do the planet a favour – pee as you shower down .