George Costanza must be from Brazil.

George Costanza

The Brazilians are known for many things: excellent soccer players, beautiful beaches, gorgeous citizens, the largest party in the world, and now for promoting urination during showers.   That’s right.  Someone is finally promoting an act that most deem disgusting and vile, but many have done in shame.  Urinating in the shower has always been looked down upon and considered a no-no by everyone I know, but now a group in Brazil is urging everyone to pee in the shower.  Why?  According to the website, http://www.xixinobanho.org.br/, you can save large amounts of water.  After doing a little research I found out that if you live in the U.S. with a family of five and have a toilet made after 1994, your family could save 2920 gallons of water per year if everyone peed in the shower once per day.  Obviously, the amount of water saved depends on how many people use the toilets and how much water the toilets uses, but no matter where you this is the newest proposed method to save water.  Sounds kind of gross, and goes against what we’ve been taught as a society, but apparently a survey conducted by the fundação SOS Mata Atlântica, 75% of the visitors to the website, http://www.xixinobanho.org.br/, do pee in the shower and are doing their part to save water.  Maybe, we are wrong then.  Maybe the few people I know that have unashamedly declared that they have peed in the shower once or twice, aren’t horrible people.   Perhaps, I shouldn’t be judging them, but joining them in their bold movements to save water.  We should cheer those few on in their valiant efforts.  Alas, I feel this campaign will have little effect in this country, and maybe one day peeing in the shower will be considered a cultural difference, similar to not tipping waiters/waitresses in Europe.
Even though the website states that peeing in the shower is fine – from a plumbing standpoint and probably more important as a health issue – it seems to me that George Costanza was wrong when he saw a drain and felt it was more convenient to pee in the shower then run to the toilet.

“It’s all pipes!!”

- MRP

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