Try to ask your colleagues/friends how often do they shower. They will reply you: “everyday” or even “twice a day”. I was SHOCKED! I shower 3 times per week or every other day at maximum. I can assure neither I stink, nor fungi grow on me 
You probably take multiple showers per day. Do you know you use 60 to 100 liters of water per shower? So, you abuse of approx. 560 liters to 1120 liters of water per week, against my 320 liters.
Humans drink around 2 liters of water per day. The water you abuse could be drinkable water for 160 to 400 people per week. In addition to this, often showering makes you more vulnerable to bacterial and viral infections.
Think about it, next time you shower, and reply to the poll down here.
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how oft do you change underwear’s?Once a week?
I really start to miss your comments, my dear.
i need 3 showers per day because……i am sweating a lot (;
I stumbled across your blog here and am thrilled to find a German view of moving to Switzerland, as we are American, German-speaking, and had moved from Germany to Switzerland in 2000, then left to the USA in 2002, after a particularly Swiss tragedy.
On showers? You have a great point, but if you save water in Switzerland, it doesn’t somehow appear in Africa where the clean water is needed. The politics about Hunger and Water and even cheap housing for the homeless are all related to immediate locale – and cannot be addressed from a global policy level. Why are there so few homeless in Switzerland? Sie koennen mich auf Deutsch beantworten, leider habe ich kein Italienanisch.
I am Italian, not German. So, no German view on the country
What was your view on Switzerland? I heard once Americans saying to Swiss people that life in U.S. and Switzerland is very similar. Do you agree?
You’re very right in saying I cannot move the water I save in Switzerland to Africa.
However, there is a huge waste of water in the “civilized” countries. This was the point of the post. We’re very lucky we don’t care about it … not yet!
2.5% of jobless people in Switzerland, a lot of money for social care… I think this is why there’re so few homeless.