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How to Tell if your Showerhead is Low-Flow
According to the EPA, 17% of all indoor household water use comes from showers or baths.
If an average individual showers 10 minutes a day, a conventional high-flow showerhead, which emits about 3.5 gallons per minute (gpm), uses 12,775 gallons per year.
That’s enough to fill more than 182 bathtubs.
Care for a bath or one-hundred-and-eighty-two?
A low-flow 2 gpm showerhead, on the other hand, uses about 7,300 gallons per year for individuals showering 10 minutes a day. That’s a 43 percent difference in water waste and energy bills.
Many modern showers are already low-flow, but the ones that aren’t, along with the high-flow showerheads in older homes, can be very easily and inexpensively replaced by low-flow heads.
You can test if your showerheads are low-flow or not by performing the following simple test:
How to tell if you should replace your showerhead
1. Place a bucket underneath your showerhead.
2. Turn on the water for a timed 10 seconds.
3. Measure how much water is in the bucket and multiply the number by 6. This is the gallons of water per minute your showerhead emits.
Most new showerheads today have a flow rate below 2.5 gpm. If your number is higher than 3, you could save a lot of water and money by switching it out. A 1 gpm showerhead is generally the best available level.
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