Renewables & Environment - Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Sustainashower offers a solution to a problem specific to Mexico. Showers take approx. 2 min. to heat up, this equivalents to a waste of 15.5 liters of water per shower. Each day in Mexico, 2 billion liters of water are wasted. Sustainashower offers a system that allows households to collect the cold & clean water from showers and lead it back to the pipe system so that it can be reused throughout the house. This clean water accounts for 20% of one shower. A family of 5 using Sustainashower saves 28,000 liters of water annually. Mexico can save 723 billion liters of water annually.