I READ with interest the story featuring Matt Le Tissier about saving water (Daily Echo, March 18).
On thinking about the claim that having a three minute shower will save 23 million litres of water in Southampton alone, I did a few calculations. The city has a population of about 222,000, so even allowing for every man woman and child having a daily shower (which I doubt), 23,000,000 divided by 222,000 gives a water saving of 103.6 litres (about 20 gallons) per person per day.
How was the published figure calculated and by whom?
I am getting increasingly irritated by wildly inaccurate statements being bandied about all in the name of saving the environment.
ALAN STEARNE (by e-mail).
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