LONDON, March 12 -- Low-pressure showers are sometimes thought to be the most environmentally friendly, but a recent UK study suggests otherwise. The researchers' experiment showed that the higher the water pressure, the shorter the duration of the shower, and therefore the lower the water consumption.

Could increasing shower pressure cut your water consumption? So suggests a study by a research team from the UK's University of Surrey. The team installed sensors in 290 showers on the University of Surrey campus, enabling them to collect data on the duration of over 86,000 individual showers. In this research, the average duration of a shower was estimated at 6.7 minutes. Based on the duration of each shower, the team was able to calculat...