[latebind]

-Also - When you shower, turn the water off while you are cleaning yourself with the soap, and then turn the water back on to wash the soap off  - this can halve your shower water easily.

Hmm. Not always true, it depends on your model of shower. Ours is an electric heated type, and runs cold every time it's turned off, so unless I'm washing my hair (which comes down to my waist) I generally spend less time in total running the shower if I don't turn it off to soap myself and then have to wait until it gets back up to warm (usually via far too hot).

HMM, sounds like you don't have a friendly shower! not friendly to you and not friendly to the environment, you should consider a better model...

[Geezer]

-Also - When you shower, turn the water off while you are cleaning yourself with the soap, and then turn the water back on to wash the soap off  - this can halve your shower water easily.

Hmm. Not always true, it depends on your model of shower. Ours is an electric heated type, and runs cold every time it's turned off, so unless I'm washing my hair (which comes down to my waist) I generally spend less time in total running the shower if I don't turn it off to soap myself and then have to wait until it gets back up to warm (usually via far too hot).

HMM, sounds like you don't have a friendly shower! not friendly to you and not friendly to the environment, you should consider a better model...

British hydraulic engineers are working diligently to produce a shower that is actually worth a damn is suitable for the UK market. There is some optimism that they'll have it cracked before the middle of this century.

[Geezer]

I think there are devices called pumps that could easily solve that problem  []

BTW - If you look further back in the thread, you'll see a lot of discussion about the differences between the UK and the US.