Shortening your shower by about one minute saves enough water to fill a 30-rack of your favorite beer.

The average American shower uses 17.2 gallons or uses about 2.1 gallons per minute.

Here are some tips to help reduce wasted water while showering.

Try taking a shorter shower of around 5 minutes.

Or play one nickleback song and you’ll be out of there ASAP.

An additional method to reduce water use in showers is to turn off the water while lathering and shampooing, often called a “navy shower”.  

The method requires three steps:

1) Turn on water to rinse body and hair.

2) Turn off water while shampooing hair and washing body with soap and washcloth.

3) Resume water flow and rinse off all shampoo and soap. Using this technique, the total duration of water flow can easily be reduced to 5 minutes or less.