How many times when you wash your hands or rinse the dishes, you turn on the hot faucet, or if you have a single, combined faucet, it is on the warm setting? I often rinse our dishes in warm water mode or wash my hands in the bathroom by turning on the hot water.
Often, when I turn on the hot water faucet, by the time I'm done with washing my hands, the water coming out is not even lukewarm. Does that make any practical sense -- particularly in the summertime? Perhaps it's simpler to grab the soap with my right hand and turn on the hot water faucet with my left hand, but what if the hot water heater turns on, even for a short minute or so heat the hot water which was dispensed? And then your multiply that by the number of times you wash your hands each day, times 365 days in a year, times the number of people in the U.S., and each wash consumes 12 gallon per wash, we will have consumed that is 182,500,000,000 gallons of water in one year that is heated by just turning on the hot water faucet to wash our hands or to rinse our dishes in warm water.
Most hot water heaters hold 50 gallons. Based on the above calculations, the nation will have heated 3,650,000,000 hot water tanks in one year, or 10,000,000 hot water tanks each day.
I'm now washing my hands with the cold water tap and moving the kitchen sink tap to cold water only to rinse the dishes. I would suggest that you consider doing the same.
Cheers, Frank
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