By the end of the day, when you’re exhausted and sore, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to sit on a bench, press a button, and be surrounded by a cloud of scented steam, allowing you to step out of the shower stall feeling relaxed and reinvigorated? If you have doubts about how to conserve in a world where droughts have been all too common, you might like to know that such a luxury (once available only at a health spa or a resort), may be taken at home using up in twenty minutes no more than two gallons of water.
Weigh those two gallons against the fifty gallons of water that even a water-saving shower head spray would use up in the same amount of time, and it quickly becomes clear that a steam shower is an extremely “green” way to clean yourself.
The shower works by filling a steam generator about the size of a breadbox with cold water (about a gallon’s worth), and then heats that water with electrical elements, bringing it to a boil. Pipes then channel the transformed water to the steam head or disperser, which will fill up the shower stall with moisture, the temperature of which may be controlled, whether you measure it in Celsius or Fahrenheit .
Over the last twenty centuries, steam has been used in a variety of ways, from small precursors of steam turbines in toys in Egypt to actual steam engines in the United States to a better way of washing up without wasting water in the 21st century throughout the world.
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