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18 May 2024 · 1 min

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In this short spoken segment, the speaker highlights a striking statistic about the excessive water waste caused by long showers among young people. Frustrated by the inefficient laundry systems in UK student accommodations, they propose an innovative solution: encouraging the reuse of shower water for laundry purposes. The idea aims to reduce water waste while addressing the challenges of communal laundry facilities in student housing.

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I saw a really terrifying statistic about how much water young people waste because they take quite long showers. And I was thinking, there must be kind of a better way to use this water. We're letting quite a lot go to waste. I was thinking, oh, I've got to do my laundry. And in the UK, student accommodations are kind of a big laundry center. So I was a little bit frustrated at that laundry system. And I was thinking, oh, maybe we could encourage people to reuse their shower water if it actually answered a solution such as laundry. And that's where kind of the idea sprung from.