Key findings
- A typical shower runs at about 8 litres a minute, so an eight-minute shower uses roughly 65 litres.
Record
- Source type
- Report
- Study type
- Cross Sectional
- Topics
- Water
- Geography
- United Kingdom
- Population
- Around 86,000 households reporting water use
- Funding & conflicts
- Not recorded.
- Source quality
- Moderate evidenceLarge household survey, but self-reported and specific to the United Kingdom.
Limitations
- Flow rates vary widely by shower type. A power shower can use several times the water of an aerated one.
- Self-reported shower durations are unreliable.
Statistics we use from this source
- 65litresWater used by an eight-minute shower