22 percent of the total use of water in homes (average homes) come from the shower. And that an average 5-minute shower would consume about 30 gallons of water. And that is just for one person! What about if there are 4 or 5 people in your home using the shower? Low flow shower heads limits and gives you less water consumption being used compared to the standard and traditional shower heads.How does it really work? Low flow shower heads of the past work just by simply blocking part of the water flow. A draw back of this is that it results to a somewhat less satisfying shower. But with modern technology and our God-given intelligence, today’s low flow shower heads still control the flow of water but with an addition of pressure through air or engineering so as to give us a firm blast of water that wouldn’t ruin our shower experience. A way to figure out if your shower at home uses to much water is take any 1gallon container under your shower head and take the time on how long it’s completely filled. Normal shower heads have a flow rate of 4-6 gallons per minute (gpm). So a 4gpm shower head would fill the container around 15 seconds. A 6gpm shower head would fill the container in only around 10 seconds, that’s a lot of water if you try to calculate it with your average standard shower time. But if you are using a low-flow shower head, it would take about 24 seconds before the 1gallon container is filled.
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