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How much are that shower and toilet costing you?

By: Charlotte R. Lane, WV PSC Chairman

The Environmental Protection Agency says our average showerhead has a water flow of 2.1 gallons per minute. And that the average shower each of us takes is eight minutes long.
Your daily shower uses an average of more than 16 gallons of water. That’s a lot of water, and few of us think about its impact.
Using those figures, you could take 625 showers for the average 10,000…