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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;letter-spacing:1.5pt;font-weight:bold'>THIS WEEK'S
CONUNDRUM<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#738B39'><a href="http://ga3.org/ct/e7N9tS61vrNH/"><font
color="#738b39"><span style='color:#738B39;text-decoration:none'>5 Handi Wipes
or Hot Shower?</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><b><font size=1 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-weight:bold'>This question comes
by way of <em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mother
Jones</span></font></i></em> board member <a
href="http://ga3.org/ct/c1N9tS61vrNK/">Jon Pageler</a>, who's currently <a
href="http://ga3.org/ct/dpN9tS61vrND/">helping</a> with the relief effort in
Haiti, where water is in short supply. But I've heard of folks taking waterless
showers in nonemergency situations, too. Last year, for example, <em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>People</span></font></i></em>
<a href="http://ga3.org/ct/4dN9tS61vr2N/">reported</a> that Brad Pitt sometimes
cleans up with baby wipes. Granted, Pitt does it to save time between scene
changes on the set. But considering that showers comprise <a
href="http://ga3.org/ct/X1N9tS61vr2S/">17 percent</a> of indoor residential
water use in the US, could bathing with wipes be better for the planet, too? </span></font></b><font
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Probably not, says Jonathan Kaledin, a water conservation expert at the Nature
Conservancy. "You have to consider all the water it takes to make the
Handi Wipes," he says. "The wipes, the chemicals—it all adds
up." The <a href="http://ga3.org/ct/47N9tS61vr22/">Water Footprint Network</a>,
a water conservation nonprofit based in the Netherlands, <a
href="http://ga3.org/ct/r1N9tS61vr2s/">estimates</a> that growing the wood to
make a single sheet of paper requires 2.6 gallons of water. That's already 13.2
gallons for 5 sheets of paper—and that's just the wood. By the time you
figure in the water costs associated with the manufacture of the paper, producing
the solution the wipes are soaked in, and packaging and shipping the wipes,
you're looking at significantly more water (and energy, for that matter) than a
five-minute shower, which, if you're using a low-flow showerhead, requires only
about <a href="http://ga3.org/ct/XdN9tS61vr2L/">10 gallons of water</a>.<br>
<br>
Under extenuating circumstances—disasters that jeopardize water supply,
or even regional droughts—wipes might still be a better choice, says
Kaledin. But as a general rule, a short shower is a better bet than wipes.
Especially if you bathe efficiently: Keep the heat down to save energy. Turn
the water off while you soap up. And if you haven't already installed a
low-flow showerhead, do it now—it'll save as much as 15 gallons of water
per shower, not to mention moola on your water bill.</span></font><font size=1
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><font size=1 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Shopping tip: Showerheads bearing the
EPA's <a href="http://ga3.org/ct/BpN9tS61vr2z/">WaterSense</a> label are about
20 percent more efficient than their conventional counterparts. </span></font><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><a href="http://ga3.org/ct/e7N9tS61vrNH/"><font
size=2><span style='font-size:10.0pt;text-decoration:none'>[READ MORE]</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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