Huh? Kadir beneath Mo Moteh. Shaka when the walls fell!This one time, at Clone Camp..
I should have included geographic location in the poll...![]()
We don't like to stink.Americans are kind of obsessed with cleanliness I've noticed. Not that they are cleaner in other ways, just that it seems to loom larger as Very Important than in other countries.
You're not going to stink if you go a day without showering.
^and in wetter ones.
A very large part of humanity has to make do with less than 5 gallons of water per day. So naturally, a shower or bath is completely out of the question for them.
The average German uses approximately 30 gallons, an American 80 (!)
The UN say that a human being needs about 12 gallons of water per day in order to prepare meals and to have enough for personal hygiene in order to avoid diseases and to retain efficiency.
A modern shower uses about 2 gallons per minute (old shower heads 5 gallons/min), a bathtub equals 36 gallons - an amount that in many African countries has to suffice for 6-7 people.
Date sources: http://www.water-for-africa.org/en/water-consumption.html
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-home-percapita.html
Maybe because of the metric system.Yes but as someone pointed out earlier, the average German uses 30 Gallons, the Average American 80 Gallons. Water is readily availble in Germany so there must be some other reason.
it's similar in Germany (half flush toilets, showering rather than bathing, washing machines that use only a few gallons, watering only freshly sown lawns).
We do have plenty of water but it's expensive. Waste of water is frowned upon (as ist waste of energy and raw materials or recyclable material).
I think the difference between the US and Germany is mainly a difference in attitude towards environmental protection. But even within the US there are differences: California, for example is more environmentally conscious (right word?) than most other US states. There, in summer, they forbid watering the lawn or washing your car because of their lack of water (much like you do in Australia). The difference is that they save water because they need to and we save water because the alternative is unthinkable to us.
As for the reason for our lack of private pools: in a country full of clean lakes, ponds and rivers, who'd need an artificial pool?
LOL, Jarod, I really must post more often in the science forum if you doubt I can convert litres to gallons![]()
(I'll try to post more there, I promise. Am just horribly busy at work atm.)
Cool link, MacLeod! Thank you =)
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