A couple of weeks ago, we went to the save water save energy expo in Melbourne. It was great to see so many products and services available to us all.

One product we saw there which we hadn’t seen before was a shower cover. It was effectively a plastic dome which fitted on top of the shower walls - even corner showers can be covered.

The cover does a couple of things - it keeps the warmth in the shower so you don’t get draughts and don’t nee to turn the water temperature up higher and it keeps the moisture inside the shower area.

As water can’t get out, it condenses inside the shower instead of in your bathroom, thus excess water goes into the drain (and into your grey water hopefully!) I t also means your bathroom doesn’t get steamed up or moist so there is less mould growth - and less cleaning has got to be a good thing!

It may not save heaps of water, but it saves energy of heating water and saves cleaning so we’re looking into getting one in our house.