My husband and I are always trying to do our part to help preserve our precious planet’s natural resources. About a month ago, we received a notice in the mail concerning the water shortage in Southern California. I’m not surprised, considering I don’t remember the last time we had measurable rainfall. The notice contained a list of recommendations for reducing water consumption. On that list was to replace shower heads with low-flow versions. The result is the potential to save up to 50% on water usage.
These days, I’m lucky if I get more than a 5-7 minute shower. During the first trimester, I’d wait until just before my son was due to wake up and run in as quick as I can. Lately I’ve been waking up earlier to get in a bit more time and perhaps even shave both legs in the same day. Those days of long, 30 minute showers are gone.
I recently had an opportunity to try out a Waterpik EcoFlow Shower Head. When it arrived, I was quite impressed with it’s appearance and more so with how it actually functions. I like shower heads that emit a good amount of water pressure. My one concern with a low-flow shower head was that it wouldn’t provide the amount of water pressure I’m accustomed to. The shower head I received is a fixed mount version (as opposed to a hand held version) featuring 5 spray settings. It saves up to one gallon of water per minute and includes a fingertip pause control to save even more water during shaving or shampooing. This is a quality shower head made of chrome and offered at a very affordable price.
Honestly, I only really like one setting on it (which I can’t remember off the top of my head). However, that’s ok because the setting I do like works well for us and gives me enough water pressure to get my thick hair rinsed! The only other thing I’d prefer in this shower head is the ability to use it as a hand held shower head, but the company does offer that option.
Waterpik’s EcoFlow Shower Heads are available for purchase online and at Lowes for $20-$50. Do you want to see how much you could save with a low flow shower head? And if you’d like more tips on how to save water, just visit the site.
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True that Southern California is taking all measures to spread awareness of water scarcity and measures to save water. Waterpik can help to some extent. But we need to follow more tips both indoor and outdoors to stop our water reserve levels from dropping any further. Visit http://tr.im/vzez for some simple and easy to follow tips on water conservation.
If you are going to install low flow shower heads you might as well install low flow faucet aerators as well. Typical faucet aerators like shower heads can start at 5 gallons per minute flow rates. Typical low flow starts at 2.2 gallons per minute and goes all the way down to .5 gallons per minute. You can find these at any local hardware store.