What I have given up (or at least minimized) is showering on land ;)
In the past 16 days, I've only showered on land 3 times!

By comparison, my solar shower has a capacity of 2.5 gallons water, and I don't even use that all up most of the time... Not to mention my water is heated by the sun, so Zero BTUs drawn from the grid for that purpose ;)
Maintaining this "average rate" of 1.5 land showers every week, will save approximately 2,860 gallons of water over a year's time. Seems significant... But, in a place where the average per person per day water demand is over 300 gallons, my savings is used up by one person in about 9 days... and primarily for irrigation purposes, as opposed to basic need :(


You might notice I did this just before the mast was restepped onto the keel through the much larger hole next to the drain ;) I've been using soap homemade by friend's Brian, Beth, and Vicki :)
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You need to add to your personal "savings" of water the amount of water that would be your share if you were renting or had a condo and the association watered your share of the common area. Then you would be coming closer to your personal water conservation.
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