It’s not about conservation. It’s just, why have the water running when you brush your teeth? I wet the toothbrush, brush my teeth, then rise the toothbrush. What do you need water for while you’re brushing?
Flip the script. Why bother turning the water off? I’ve never lived in a place where water conservation makes any difference at all. My ex-wife and I would drain and fill the 30,000 gallon pool for an extra $10 a month.
If you’re in the American West, conservation is a big deal. Here in NW Florida, no one gives a shit because we have all the water we can use for damned near free.
Because I don’t need it. Electricity is very cheap where I live… doesn’t mean I leave the lights on when I’m not in a room.
I don’t leave the oven on all the time in case I want to bake something quickly, either. And that would actually save time, unlike running water while brushing teeth.
You don’t need water while brushing your teeth, do you? By your logic, why not keep the tap running all the time? I seriously don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
My reasoning is that it’s silly to worry about a half gallon of water. There are plenty of places in the world where such worry would make sense, but even in those places, a half gallon makes zero difference.
The reasoning I’ve heard from those who do, is to keep the sink clean. They have no answer to why not rinse the sink once at the end. I guess they don’t like seeing it during?
Probably not hard to blow given you’re apparently too fucking stupid to turn your wrist twice a day in a way a toddler can figure out and too fragile to not lash out about it when people are surprised.
This isn’t even a conservation thing; the sensible default is to turn off the water.
About 52% of the Colorado River’s water is used for irrigated agriculture, while 18% is consumed in urban areas. The rest supports natural vegetation (19%) and evaporates from reservoirs (11%). No water reaches the ocean.
My wife does this and leaves her electric brush in the shower, and I knock it down every.single.time and it goes down very loudly and it’s extremely annoying. Those fuckers are heavy, and sometimes it smashes my foot.
Having grown up in the tropics, at times we’d be asked to conserve/ration water in drought, other times told to use as much as possible if catchments were getting too full. Really depended on El Nino / La Nina.
It’s weird turning on all the water in your house and sitting down to watch TV. Though I have had it happen before where the dam was being purged a bit, everyone was running water, so the river the dam water normally drains into had risen above and spilled into the drainways and it started coming back up through the bath and sinks 🤣
I grew up near a massive river back home. So I get that, but my issue is with those who live in a controlled water supplies and just sit there brushing their teeth while the water is running. It just feels wrong to me. Hell, I go as far as turning off the water literally when I move the dish I just washed from the sink to the dish washer when I wash my dishes. I do that with every single dish. It literally feels physically wrong to me. 😂
I will admit that I do. However, in my defense, I hear music coming from the faucet while it is on and I like to jam to hallucinatory music while I brush. My brain just makes whatever it wants to hear from any white noise source but water from the tap in the bathroom produces the best results.
Not reliably, I tend to hear metal or jazz and I think that correlates with the amount of noise in the white noise. It’s more like a slower flow makes less noise so I hear less music or none at all. It’s gotta be saying Ssshhhhhh or I don’t hear squat.
Audio pareidolia is the phenomenon where your brain perceives familiar sounds, such as words or music, in random noise, like the hum of a fan or running water. This occurs because your brain is wired to recognize patterns, even in ambiguous auditory stimuli.
Too many hallucinogens in my youth? I hear music in the shower too. Anywhere where a white noise is the dominant sound my brain just starts making shit up. I get the same deal staring at static on an old tv. I start seeing patterns in the chaos.
I have done so my entire life, water has been cheap here, and I currently don’t pay for water used in my apartment, I have a utility bill, but water is included and I only pay a fixed amount every month for the utilities in my apartment.
I realize it is wasteful when I think about it, but in general I don’t think about it.
And this is why I often hesitate to add an oposing viewpoint to discussions online.
I am getting downvoted and called out despite simply answering the question.
And I absolutely disagree with you on calling it narrow and selfish, thoughtless would be the truth.
I also disagree with calling it “shitty”, for the most part of my life Sweden has not had a drought, no one has been denied access to water due to my actions.
So this is also thoughtlessness.
Now the drought situation in Sweden is changing, and I am keeping track of it, so far I have not yet heard about there being risks of drinking water shortages, if that changes, I will change my behavoir. Until that time I will do what I always do when I am working to change something, I’ll work with it slowly and change behavoirs at a resonable pace.
For me the keyword is “unnecessarily “: it never occurred to me to waste water like that. But it’s really not much and I wasted more water in other ways.
Perhaps we need more expensive water so there is personal incentive to use less
Cleaning our drinking water is quite a complicated process. I think it’s pointless to just waste all that energy because you can afford to. And with seasonal droughts becoming more and more common in Europe…
People keep the water running while brushing their teeth???
This one was so crazy to learn about as a kid, because I genuinely couldn’t believe people needed to be taught this.
You’d be surprised how ignorant some people are about things that should be common sense.
I lived most of my life near a huge river (it spans 3 countries) and when I wasted water, my mother beat the shit out of me.
Like what countries though, spanning the Vatican, Italy, and San Marino is very different from spanning Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil.
I don’t want to give away more info about me, but it’s in the Middle East. lol
Oh I wasn’t actually trying to get ya, just being a smart ass.
No worries then. It flew over my head. Lol
I mean I’m surrounded by Arab neighbours on my street and I’m only just now grasping the habibi in your name so we’re both just missing things.
Are you on Arrakis?! You’re recycling your pee, aren’t you? Tie your stillsuit boots in slip-fashion like Muad’dib.
This whole thread is blowing my mind. The Colorado River is drying up, using 26% of it’s water for alfalfa, largely for export, and here we are,
“Doesn’t everyone know to conserve that extra 1/2 gallon when brushing their teeth!?”
I never think about it in terms of conserving water. It’s just plain stupid to keep the water running when you don’t need it.
It’s not about conservation. It’s just, why have the water running when you brush your teeth? I wet the toothbrush, brush my teeth, then rise the toothbrush. What do you need water for while you’re brushing?
Flip the script. Why bother turning the water off? I’ve never lived in a place where water conservation makes any difference at all. My ex-wife and I would drain and fill the 30,000 gallon pool for an extra $10 a month.
If you’re in the American West, conservation is a big deal. Here in NW Florida, no one gives a shit because we have all the water we can use for damned near free.
Because I don’t need it. Electricity is very cheap where I live… doesn’t mean I leave the lights on when I’m not in a room.
I don’t leave the oven on all the time in case I want to bake something quickly, either. And that would actually save time, unlike running water while brushing teeth.
To attract beavers.
You don’t need water while brushing your teeth, do you? By your logic, why not keep the tap running all the time? I seriously don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
My reasoning is that it’s silly to worry about a half gallon of water. There are plenty of places in the world where such worry would make sense, but even in those places, a half gallon makes zero difference.
The reasoning I’ve heard from those who do, is to keep the sink clean. They have no answer to why not rinse the sink once at the end. I guess they don’t like seeing it during?
Probably not hard to blow given you’re apparently too fucking stupid to turn your wrist twice a day in a way a toddler can figure out and too fragile to not lash out about it when people are surprised.
This isn’t even a conservation thing; the sensible default is to turn off the water.
It’s the same as bringing back your shopping cart just FAR easier. I see it as a litmus test for people
97% of its water for agriculture in general. In deserts. Home water usage, all homes, including watering a lawn, use less than a percent.
https://www.eesi.org/briefings/view/021925rivers
Looks like ag usage has dropped to 70-74%, been a couple of years since I read that stat.
https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/
https://www.worldatlas.com/rivers/who-actually-uses-colorado-river-water.html
Definitely not 52%.
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I brush my teeth while showering so yes
My wife does this and leaves her electric brush in the shower, and I knock it down every.single.time and it goes down very loudly and it’s extremely annoying. Those fuckers are heavy, and sometimes it smashes my foot.
Clean teeth shower gang ™️
Dozens of us!
Do you shower twice a day to brush your teeth enough?
As a shower brusher myself, I have two toothbrushes. A shower one, and a sink one for when the shower doesnt align with needing to brush my teeth.
Dentist said two minutes so I just do four minutes
Having grown up in the tropics, at times we’d be asked to conserve/ration water in drought, other times told to use as much as possible if catchments were getting too full. Really depended on El Nino / La Nina.
It’s weird turning on all the water in your house and sitting down to watch TV. Though I have had it happen before where the dam was being purged a bit, everyone was running water, so the river the dam water normally drains into had risen above and spilled into the drainways and it started coming back up through the bath and sinks 🤣
I grew up near a massive river back home. So I get that, but my issue is with those who live in a controlled water supplies and just sit there brushing their teeth while the water is running. It just feels wrong to me. Hell, I go as far as turning off the water literally when I move the dish I just washed from the sink to the dish washer when I wash my dishes. I do that with every single dish. It literally feels physically wrong to me. 😂
That’s wild, thanks for sharing! 💜
I will admit that I do. However, in my defense, I hear music coming from the faucet while it is on and I like to jam to hallucinatory music while I brush. My brain just makes whatever it wants to hear from any white noise source but water from the tap in the bathroom produces the best results.
…I’ll allow it.
Sounds like mild schizophrenia…
Is it schizophrenia if we are all in agreement?
😂 this got me
Can you change the genre by varying the flow rate?
Not reliably, I tend to hear metal or jazz and I think that correlates with the amount of noise in the white noise. It’s more like a slower flow makes less noise so I hear less music or none at all. It’s gotta be saying Ssshhhhhh or I don’t hear squat.
That’s really interesting. Is there a name for it that you know of?
Too many hallucinogens in my youth? I hear music in the shower too. Anywhere where a white noise is the dominant sound my brain just starts making shit up. I get the same deal staring at static on an old tv. I start seeing patterns in the chaos.
Ha, this happens to me when I’m high. I love how odd sounds can be turned into music in that state.
Sub conscious pattern recognition is what tripping is all about. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who has experienced this.
I have done so my entire life, water has been cheap here, and I currently don’t pay for water used in my apartment, I have a utility bill, but water is included and I only pay a fixed amount every month for the utilities in my apartment.
I realize it is wasteful when I think about it, but in general I don’t think about it.
But… Why? You just stand there and watch the water run uselessly for 2 straight minutes while you brush your teeth???
Its calming like a mini waterfall. You can sense yourself as an ultra rich for a brief moment. Mental satisfaction is totally worth the price
I would find the sound annoying
No, I brush my teeth.
With all due respect, this is such a narrow and selfish way of thinking. Allow me to say, it’s really shitty. What a shame.
And this is why I often hesitate to add an oposing viewpoint to discussions online.
I am getting downvoted and called out despite simply answering the question.
And I absolutely disagree with you on calling it narrow and selfish, thoughtless would be the truth.
I also disagree with calling it “shitty”, for the most part of my life Sweden has not had a drought, no one has been denied access to water due to my actions.
So this is also thoughtlessness.
Now the drought situation in Sweden is changing, and I am keeping track of it, so far I have not yet heard about there being risks of drinking water shortages, if that changes, I will change my behavoir. Until that time I will do what I always do when I am working to change something, I’ll work with it slowly and change behavoirs at a resonable pace.
Yeah and let me disagree with you both
For me the keyword is “unnecessarily “: it never occurred to me to waste water like that. But it’s really not much and I wasted more water in other ways.
Perhaps we need more expensive water so there is personal incentive to use less
I don’t understand this consumerism mindset.
I guess that’s why temu is so popular. Consume and waste because you can, not because you need. Just to tell yourself that you’re doing great in life.
Eh, fair I guess, I just don’t see any weird with this, granted I live in Sweden where water is abundant so my frame of reference is different.
Cleaning our drinking water is quite a complicated process. I think it’s pointless to just waste all that energy because you can afford to. And with seasonal droughts becoming more and more common in Europe…
Here in Sweden we seldom carry water when out camping in our inland, there is so much clean water comming out of the ground that it is unneeded.
This is changing, but still mostly accurate.
Unfortunately, there’s more to clean water than just the source.
Waste water needs to be cleaned in a complicated multi step process
We were talking about drinking water, not waste treatment. Two very different processes.
Lol cleaning drinking water in countries like Sweden is not complicated or energy intensive.
Ever wondered what happens with the waste water?
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It needs to be cleaned too. And the treatment facility doesn’t differentiate between water + excrement and water that was clean. Sewage is sewage.
You know what happens when there is no sewage handling infrastructure.
Could you perhaps make a habit of thinking about it from now on?
I promise you this, if I remember, I will think about it and try to better myself.
I don’t believe in making unrealistic promises