Kolumbianer sollen mit einem Freund duschen, da die Wasserversorgung der Hauptstadt durch Dürre beeinträchtigt wird

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/12/colombia-bogota-drought-water-rationing

42 comments

  2. 9 months from now “Colombians having baby boom.”

    EDIT: i misspelled colombians, which is bad.

  4. Showering with someone else is much better in theory than in practice

  5. Usually leads to longer showers in my experience 😉

  7. That’s not how it works. You still have 1 shower per person happening. Except, in my experience, to actually shower now you have to maneuver around another human while not splashing soap in their eyes or elbowing them or knocking them out of the shower.

  9. Just gonna end up wasting more water, not less. Anyone who has showered with a partner knows it’s not exactly more efficient than solo

  10. Unexpected Cities Skylines 2

    (There’s a “radio” station in the game that makes the suggestion of showering with a friend to deal with water shortages)

  11. Lots of ‘friendships’ have been ruined by shared showers

  16. They should have said “a friend’s mom”. Then I’m all over it.

  17. Anytime I take a shower with my SO the shower is def longer than if we would have taken separate ones. Negating any water saved.

  18. Does that even save water? You’d just run it like twice as long, if not longer.

    If you really want to save water you fill up a pale with water and use a cloth/sponge to wash yourself. Dump the pale on yourself to rinse. We’ve done that at the cottage that has a very limited water well.

  22. Not efficient at all. Bucket with hot water and a sponge is better.

    I could bathe a colombian girl to demostrate.

  25. That typically leads to longer showers in my experience.

  27. This is insane. Mostly because Colombians love their showers. A lot of people shower twice a day. This occurs mostly in the hotter areas and less so than in Bogotá. But when I was living there my gf would shower twice a day and thought I was weird for showering once a day.

  28. I thinking taking a shower every few days would be far more effective

  29. Shouldn’t you just shower every other day instead? Something like that seems more efficient and practical lol

  30. When I was a teenager in the 90’s there was some special on TV pushing environmental care, and at the end it was switching from famous actor to famous actor giving tips. They were all sensible, but the only one I remember was Chevy Chase: “Shower with a friend”.

    Shocking that this joke is now a real suggestion in Colombia.

    Ooh, found it! It was called the Earth Day Special.

  32. Me knocking at my neighbour, excuse me miss, they said we need to shower together.

  33. I feel like there are more effective ways to conserve water than limiting showers

  34. Even though I am US based, I should tell my wife that we need to shower together to save water for Colombia.

  36. My wife and I stopped showing together years ago when we bought a house with two full bathrooms, honestly it’s just annoying.

    Whoever has the hot water, the other one is some level of annoyed and impatient waiting to get it back lol. Also fucking in the shower is highly overrated, there’s a much more comfortable bed right in the next room after you’re both showered.

  37. Or they can just turn off the water when a “friend” would be using it… It’s not like you’re both using the water at the same time when you take a shower with someone o.O

  42. Queue a population boom in Columbia and a new generation of shower babies.

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