http://www.pledgebank.com/showerpower Comments on 'renew our pledge to save water by limiting all our showers to 4 minutes and to catch the overflow in a bucket. We will reuse this water on the garden,' en-gb team@pledgebank.com hourly 2 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://www.pledgebank.com/showerpower#comment_972756 I usually have a bath, so whenever I have the luxury of a shower, it'll be hard to limit it to just four minutes. I got the water co. to fit a water meter and since then, we've been using the bath-water to flush the loo. Suggestion - If you replace your shower-head with a new water-saving one, can you shower for an extra two minutes? ;-) http://www.pledgebank.com/showerpower#comment_956828 Hi Tim - thanks for your question. - what I do is place the bucket in the shower over the plughole before I turn the shower on. This means you catch the water as the shower warms up. As I am showering I find there is enough room for both me and the bucket - with a 4 minute shower I find the bucket catches between 5 - 10 litres of water. With this in mind I figure that if 50 people save 5 litres of water per day for the next 3 months this will be 21, 000 litres that can be reused - over a year this would be 84,000 litres. http://www.pledgebank.com/showerpower#comment_955964 If it's not a silly question, what are the practicalities of catching the overflow water in a bucket? Do you just stick a plug in the plughole and scoop up the water afterwards, or is there an obvious way to do it that I've missed?