Final Week

This week was the last week of the challenge and I really wanted to make a difference. I was dedicated to finishing of the challenge with a strong week. I have now mastered the art of taking a short shower, applying the soap beforehand. Pre wetting my hair in the hand basin and having a water proof phone cover to keep a close eye on my time.  I have finally felt comfortable in reducing my showers to less than 3 minutes. It is no longer a challenge and more of a lifestyle change that is now a way of life, I now have no need to shower longer than 3 minutes and feel completely comfortable in doing this. Whereas at the start of my challenge I felt unclean, dirty and uncomfortable. It’s amazing how such a small change in lifestyle can have such a major impact on the environment, I will collaborate all the statistics and present them in my final report.

Standard Deviation: 6.8
Median: 164
Highest: 175
Lowest: 154
Spread: 20
Mean: 164.1

I finished my last week very strongly as you can see from the statistics I was extremely consistent and had a fairly low spread of only 20 seconds from my highest to lowest time. I am very proud of my efforts and hope I have inspired others to undertake their own environmental challenge.

Week 7

This is the second last week, I'm starting to feel very comfortable with this challenge. I no longer skip out on showering and have found a lot of consistency and am comfortably able to stay under the 3 minute mark. But it could be a bit too late to achieve my overall goal of averaging under 3 minutes per shower. My current average is 3.42 minutes per shower so in order to reduce my total under the 3 minute, I have to not shower for the entirety of next week. I have decided that I will continue to shower everyday as not showering for a week is unreasonably and I don’t want to skew the data. I have realized that reducing your shower time is something relative simple and doesn't effect your life at all once you’re used to it, but it can make a massive difference. If everyone in my city of Adelaide with a population of 1.3 million all reduce their shower time by 3 minutes. We could save over 65 million litres per day that’s over 25 Olympic sized swimming pools!

The below statistics are based on if everyone in Adelaide reduced their water consumption by 3 minutes.

Water consumption statistics (Per day)	Population 1.3 million
Adelaide reduction in water	65,579,800 liters
Olympic swimming pools	26.23192
Cost of water consumption	$152,145.00

Week 6

Winter is coming! I have definitely felt the effect of the incoming winter this week, as it is starting to get colder in Adelaide. As I live in a share house in the city our heating is lousy and we are lacking insulation. Having a hot shower is one of the only ways in which I can keep warm and thaw out. As the temperature gets colder so does the incentive for having a longer shower, this week I tried to stay on track but I was tempted especially on the cold days to shower a little bit over time. This is prevalent in my graph this week. I have plotted my time in seconds for this week, you can clearly see I lack consistent results and discipline. I have started looking forward to this challenge to be over, but I am still determined to make a lasting change on my shower times. I’ve been looking into buy a blow heating that I can use as an alternative to warm me up on cold days so I can continue to remain on target. Hopefully next week goes better!

Statistics; Shower length in seconds

mean	221.42
median	179
max	350
min	167