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Designing a Long, Guilt-Free Shower

The Showerloop cleans and recycles runoff water before it hits the drain.
A new filtration system hopes to capture water that would otherwise end up down the drain.
A new filtration system hopes to capture water that would otherwise end up down the drain.albund/Shutterstock.com
By
Eillie Anzilotti

Given the planet’s increasingly fraught water supply, five minutes is the environmentally correct length of a shower.

Americans tend to spend an average of 8.2 minutes in the shower. To shave off those extra 3.2 minutes, conservation organizations have offered up suggestions ranging from setting an egg timer to limiting your shower jam sessions to one five-minute song.