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[–] 133 points 14 hours ago (37 children)

People keep the water running while brushing their teeth????

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  • [–] 49 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

    I brush my teeth while showering so yes

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  • [–] 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Do you shower twice a day to brush your teeth enough?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago

    My wife does this and leaves her electric brush in the shower, and I knock it down every.single.time and it goes down very loudly and it’s extremely annoying. Those fuckers are heavy, and sometimes it smashes my foot.

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  • [–] 40 points 13 hours ago* (9 children)

    This one was so crazy to learn about as a kid, because I genuinely couldn't believe people needed to be taught this.

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  • [+] -36 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

    Are you on Arrakis?! You're recycling your pee, aren't you? Tie your stillsuit boots in slip-fashion like Muad'dib.

    This whole thread is blowing my mind. The Colorado River is drying up, using 26% of it's water for alfalfa, largely for export, and here we are,

    "Doesn't everyone know to conserve that extra 1/2 gallon when brushing their teeth!?"

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  • [–] 47 points 12 hours ago

    It's not about conservation. It's just, why have the water running when you brush your teeth? I wet the toothbrush, brush my teeth, then rise the toothbrush. What do you need water for while you're brushing?

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  • [–] 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    97% of its water for agriculture in general. In deserts. Home water usage, all homes, including watering a lawn, use less than a percent.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    About 52% of the Colorado River’s water is used for irrigated agriculture, while 18% is consumed in urban areas. The rest supports natural vegetation (19%) and evaporates from reservoirs (11%). No water reaches the ocean.

    https://www.eesi.org/briefings/view/021925rivers

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  • [–] 8 points 12 hours ago*

    This whole thread is blowing my mind.

    Probably not hard to blow given you're apparently too fucking stupid to turn your wrist twice a day in a way a toddler can figure out and too fragile to not lash out about it when people are surprised.

    This isn't even a conservation thing; the sensible default is to turn off the water.

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

    I will admit that I do. However, in my defense, I hear music coming from the faucet while it is on and I like to jam to hallucinatory music while I brush. My brain just makes whatever it wants to hear from any white noise source but water from the tap in the bathroom produces the best results.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

    Can you change the genre by varying the flow rate?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Not reliably, I tend to hear metal or jazz and I think that correlates with the amount of noise in the white noise. It’s more like a slower flow makes less noise so I hear less music or none at all. It’s gotta be saying Ssshhhhhh or I don’t hear squat.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago (1 child)

    That's really interesting. Is there a name for it that you know of?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago

    Too many hallucinogens in my youth? I hear music in the shower too. Anywhere where a white noise is the dominant sound my brain just starts making shit up. I get the same deal staring at static on an old tv. I start seeing patterns in the chaos.

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  • [+] -10 points 9 hours ago (11 children)

    I have done so my entire life, water has been cheap here, and I currently don't pay for water used in my apartment, I have a utility bill, but water is included and I only pay a fixed amount every month for the utilities in my apartment.

    I realize it is wasteful when I think about it, but in general I don't think about it.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 hours ago* (4 children)

    I don't understand this consumerism mindset.

    I guess that's why temu is so popular. Consume and waste because you can, not because you need. Just to tell yourself that you're doing great in life.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    Eh, fair I guess, I just don't see any weird with this, granted I live in Sweden where water is abundant so my frame of reference is different.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    Cleaning our drinking water is quite a complicated process. I think it's pointless to just waste all that energy because you can afford to. And with seasonal droughts becoming more and more common in Europe...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Here in Sweden we seldom carry water when out camping in our inland, there is so much clean water comming out of the ground that it is unneeded.

    This is changing, but still mostly accurate.

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