It was the end of 2012 and everyone around me was psyched to make new resolutions, I am going to start exercising from 1^st Jan, OMG I am going on a diet, hey dude! Guess what I am going to quit smoking… uff how I get tired listening to all this. One thing I have realized in life is that I get bored with resolutions. It’s never going to work I know and most of us have realized it in the passage of time.

During the same time, someone tweeted (oh yea! twitter always helps you to be updated with what is happening around  the world) a link where a research showed that it is better to bath than to shower. The average shower uses 7 gallons of water per minute. The average shower time being 7 minutes that equals to 49 gallon where as the average size of the tub holds 40-60 gallon when filled to the top but mostly uses 30 only and maybe 5 gallon more to rinse off….so totaling of 35 gallon.

I was impressed. Wah! This is something that I can actually commit to myself or maybe make a resolution to save some water. Do a great deed by saving some water for other people to use it. SO when 2013 started, I started using buckets and mugs to wash myself. It was indeed very difficult if you are so used to the lavish showering style. For few days, I felt so dirty and my mind was telling me that the shampoo is not properly rinsed off. I did convince myself that under circumstances where I am travelling or staying at someone else’s place, I am not going to make a big fuss if I am not going to get my bucket and mug.

Time passed and with days gone, I felt that yes I have saved some good amount of water. I even read in Ripley’s believe it or not that Kailash Singh, a man from India who had not taken a wash for 37 years in a greed of having a son, has 7 daughters. No I can’t do that. It is out of question to stay without taking a wash. After I read this, it was consoling that I am atleast taking a bath.

I finished 2013 without a shower. Plus minus the time I had unavoidable circumstances. I felt good. I realized I can stick to my commitments. I just needed a little bit of good cause to do that. How many gallons I have saved? I have not counted. But even if I have saved 100 gallons of water, I am proud about it.

The funny part is today I read another article (since the beginning of 2014 I am pretty flexible now with shower and bath). It argues that the debate between the shower and the bath has not ever come to any conclusion. Low-flow shower faucets, saves more water than the tub, unless you are taking a 20 minute long shower. Both have similar uses of water. For once I felt angry. Damn I had tortured myself to go through all that. But back in my mind I feel I have atleast tried to do something good for the environment.