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I hate to say it, but this article made me think.

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Once you get past the ick factor, you have to admit it does make sense.

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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.”

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Thoughts?

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