Going Green Project
Shorter Shower Times🛀
By Emily Osman❤
Project Description
Analysis & Results
On my line graph, I used the average or mean of my data table and put those numbers on my line graph. I took all four shower times for one day and added them up, then divided by four. I did that for all 10 days, before and after, and that's how I got the numbers I ended up with.
The water usage was definitely affected in the end. It was hard to cut down the showers for some of us, but we tried to remember. The resource that was mostly affected was water, an abiotic resource. Water is a renewable resource, but we have to use it wisely. We saved .34¢ because we were using about 50-60 gallons which cost 3.29$ and then we dropped to about 30-50 gallons which costs 2.95$ and if you do the math that's 34 cents.
Money & Resources Saved
I looked up the showers heads we have and then I looked for how many gallons per minute it uses, (which is 2.5) and the I multiplied that by how many minutes the showers were. For one year if we kept showering in about the same time range, it would cost 1,029.3 dollars. If we didn't take shorter showers, it would cost 1,153.4 dollars per year. We would save 124.1 dollars. Per month it would be 84.6 dollars, instead of 97.96 dollars per month. We would save 13.36 dollars.
Before Data
Day 1: 62.5 gallons of water
Day 2: 66.0 gallons of water
Day 3: 58.3 gallons of water
Day 4: 54.5 gallons of water
Day 5: 54.5 gallons of water
After Data
Day 1: 52.1 gallons of water
Day 2: 49.7 gallons of water
Day 3: 43.3 gallons of water
Day 4: 42.4 gallons of water
Day 5: 41.6 gallons of water
Then subtract 62.5-41.6
In all we saved about 22 gallons of water.
Minutes
Minutes
Blue is Before. Orange is After. I did this over the course of 10 days. Before Data: Over the first few days it went up, but then went down and then the last two days had the same average time. After Data: It started to go down slowly, but then gradually goes down and over the last two days it drops dramatically.