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Home: How Green Was My Shower.(The Good Life)(quench)(Brief article)
Byline: Linda Stern
Everyone loves a long, hot shower. But it's becoming increasingly difficult to justify one. Fortunately, a handful of companies are looking at ways to cut water consumption while saving the experience. With the Quench, from Australia's HydroCo., the first cycle is a normal shower for sudsing, shampooing and rinsing that lasts two minutes. Then it starts recycling the hot, suds-free water, saving about 114 liters for a seven-minute shower (starting at $4,000; quenchshowers.com).
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