Generally, does it take more water to take a shower or a bath?

My friend and i are arguing over this.





i think it seems like a shower would take more, but im not sure.





Lets say, a 10-15 minute shower, and a standard sized tub.Generally, does it take more water to take a shower or a bath?
It actually very much depends upon your procedure and your equipment.





I once ran out of hot water I boiled water on the stove and stood in the shower with my bucket of warm water. I found that 4 to 5 gallons was more than enough to do the job using a washcloth.





If you wanted to economize with a shower you might use a low flow shower head and turn the water off when you are not using it. A low flow shower head will put out 1.5 to 2.5 gallons per minute gpm and this is somewhat dependent upon your water pressure. Your shower head may not be of the low flow variety and maybe you like that warm water too much to turn it off.





A standard (5') built in bathtub has a capacity of 42 gallons, but if you sat in that most of the water is simply going to go down the drain through the overflow. Practically speaking you would have to subtract the displaced volume of your body that would be submerged. I would guess no more than 10 gallons so lets say that the bathtub filled to useful capacity would be 32 gallons.





At 1.5 gpm you have 32/1.5 or about 21 minutes in the shower before you equal the water consumed by the bath. At 2.5 gpm you only have about 12.8 minutes to shower. But if you turn the water off while you are in there and only soaping up then you could save even more.





There is also an energy cost here as some of that water will have to be heated and so the more water you use to bath the more energy you use. I once calculated that each shower was costing me about $2.00 in hot water for the energy use. But that is a calculation for another day. The second cite below is a description of how to make your shower more energy efficient. I liked the results.Generally, does it take more water to take a shower or a bath?
A shower would use lesser water. Normally shower heads are adjusted to use 2.5 gallons of water every minute. And considering the water shortage faced by various regions, it鈥檚 always better to limit your showers to 5 -6 minutes. If you have to use a tub, make sure you redirect the used water from the tub to your garden or use it to flush the toilet. In this way you would be saving gallons of water everyday. For more water saving tips and to see how much water each of them can save, check out - http://www.bewaterwise.com/tips01.html . Please save water. It鈥檚 the most important resource on earth!
As others have said a newer showerhead will be restricted to 2.5 gallons per minute. If your goal is to save water then you should easily be able to finish a shower in ten minutes or less. At ten minutes you would use 25 gallons of water. That much water would fill a 4 foot by 2 foot bathtub to a depth of only 5 inches - not much of a bath.
Wow, I was reading your extra info bit and wow! a 10-15minute shower? I thought that was so weird because here, in Victoria, australia, we have water restrictions and are only allowed to take a 4 minute shower! (although, i do normally run overtime).


Like everyone else has said, it all depends on your shower head, shower time, and how much you fill up the bath tub.
Yes ';Dopey DIno'; I did the plug in the shower test. I save more water taking a bath. Shower times are different for all people. This is a sure fire test to tell where your water usage is at. I suppose it's b/c I wash hair, bathe %26amp; shave all at the same time.





I recommend the plug test to everyone interested in conserving water.
In general a shower uses less than a bath. There are things that can change that. A bath takes about 60 gallons, a low flow shower head uses about 2.5 gallons per minute, so a longer shower or a shower head that isn't low flow will make a difference.
Take a shower! Wet your self down and soap up a wash cloth, and turn OFF the water, same thing with the hair! Then rinse off! The shower will take less time and use less soap! This save Water and reduces your contact with the chlorine that's in the Water, which isn't so good for you! especially if your a female? Turn down your water heater to it,s lowest comfortable Temperature!
In a 10-15 shower you use more water than taking a bath. If you take a less than 3 minute shower you normally are using less water than a bath.





Hope this helps
If you can, have a normal-length shower with the drain plug in the tub. Then you'll know for sure. Think it's less.
I say a shower unless you have a water saver for your shower release
Generally SHOWER
more water to take a bath shower is less