Tasmanians love long showers: How you could save $160 by making this one small change.

More than half of Tasmanians admit to taking longer showers than recommended. How changing this simple habit could save money during a cost-of-living crisis.

Keep hot shower time to a minimum to avoid over drying the skin.

Tasmanians love long showers with new feedback gathered by TasWater showing more than half of us are in there longer than recommended.

More than 3000 people provided feedback to TasWater over the last four months through surveys, one-on-one interviews and directly to staff at events through the Water, it’s Tasmania’s thing! community engagement campaign.

TasWater head of communications and engagement Callan Paske said they had uncovered some “fascinating” results from the campaign, including 57 per cent of respondents indicating they have longer showers than the three-to-four minutes recommended.

“The response has been excellent – it’s really pleasing for us to see Tasmanians actively

wanting to influence the future of water and sewerage services in Tasmania,” Mr Paske

said.

About three per cent of the respondents admitted to having longer than 10 minute showers daily.

A modern water-saving shower head uses around nine litres of water per minute, and an older style can use as much as 19 litres a minute.

A shower lasting between five and fifteen minutes can use anywhere between 45 and 285 litres of water.

Households who cut three to four minutes off their shower times could save at least $160 a year in power on average for a family of four.

Mr Paske said the community feedback through the surveys found that apart from lowering bill prices, the top priority for TasWater customers was protecting and enhancing waterways and catchments.

The next phase of the customer engagement strategy will involve a community panel to discuss the feedback collected through the engagement process to date.

Recruitment is now underway, with a paid opportunity to attend a seven-day panel to test the priorities gathered through other feedback rounds.

“We are hoping to recruit a wide selection of Tasmanians to be a part of this panel,” Mr Paske said.

He said the priorities that have been uncovered through other phases of the engagement process would be tested by the panel and the panel would then make independent recommendations back to TasWater on behalf of Tasmanians.