Peeing in the shower is not something you tend to openly discuss with others. You could be one of them or you could think it’s absolutely disgusting. However, according to science, you should urinate in the shower, not only because of how practical it can be, but because doing so could save a little more the planet’s resources. If you are in doubt about whether this is acceptable or not, here are the reasons why you should urinate in the shower, mathematically speaking.
Why you should pee in the shower according to science?
Let’s think about it for a moment, mathematically. Every time you urinate, you have to flush. Whereas smelly feces do need considerable amounts of water to send them into a mysterious watery underworld, urine hardly needs any stimulation once the discharge begins.
While many toilet flushes can be stopped part of the way from their noisy waterfalls, most can’t, and that’s wasting a ton of water.
An average flush from a modern Western-style toilet uses 1.6 gallons (6 liters) of water, and the average adult urinates about seven times every 24 hours. That means urinating each day requires 42 liters (11.1 gallons) of toilet water to flush.
Assuming that people urinate the same way every day, this means that in just one year, the average person uses 15,330 liters (4,050 gallons) of toilet water.
There are 319 million people in the U.S. alone, so assuming they all pee from 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 discharged in the name of urine every 365 days. For comparison, that’s like dumping 1.97 million Olympic-size swimming pools per year.
Now if you peed in the shower, you could massively lower this number. This would mean that you would only urinate into a toilet six, not seven, times a day. This means that in just one year, 2,190 liters (579 gallons) of toilet water would be saved. Extrapolating this to the entire population of the United States alone, that would be 699 million liters (185 million gallons) of water saved.
Climate change, partly due to man and partly due to inefficient use of water resources, the world’s water supply is being incredibly low. So, go ahead, do the planet a favor: pee in the shower.
Other reasons to start urinating in the shower
You avoid having to come into contact with paper, you will avoid painful incidents (such as those where it stays attached to your body without realizing it), and you will save paper, thus avoiding fewer trees slaughtered.
The toilet will stay cleaner. It’s that simple, the less urine you have to leave in the toilet, the less smell, the less dirt, the less need to wash it, the less wasted water, the less use of toxic or non-toxic detergents and the more energy saved.
Foot fungus disappears. Strange but true: urine has anti-fungal properties. The uric acid and ammonia in your urine can help extinguish yeast infections, add urine to the list of home remedies for athlete’s foot and other fungi. In other words, if you accidentally pee on your feet, don’t worry – it’s basically a spa treatment.
You will keep the bladder well supported. Have you ever been hearing about Kegel exercises, especially if you have had children? Nobody likes to do them and they are a pain in the rear, but if you have trouble controlling your urine – mild incontinence is one of those unfortunate side effects of childbirth – urinating in the shower might be a good solution.
Instead of actively trying to do Kegel exercises, do your squat workout to urinate in the shower. For added benefits, try stopping your urine for a second and then starting over.
Good for the environment. We mentioned earlier that you could drastically reduce your water bill – but you can also make a huge positive impact on the planet.
Almost everyone does. If you pee in the shower, you’re in good company. So, there is no reason to feel bad. According to a survey of 1,000 women, 75 to 80 percent of all women admit to peeing in the shower. We are not saying that you need to be part of the group, but if you were feeling guilty, this should be proof enough that it is nothing to embarrass you.
