Your apparently trivial debate about showers (You be the judge: my partner is obsessed with our home’s water consumption. Should he stop?, 25 December) accidentally gets to the heart of how normal people can respond to climate change.
“Peter” seems a bit over the top about water saving, but having lived many years in Africa I learned how precious fresh, clean water is when you don’t have enough. At the risk of being indelicate, I wonder what anyone does while in the shower for 30 minutes? Perhaps someone could involve bathroom designers – for years I had a sitzbad with shower – having a comfortable seat made the whole shower more relaxed. We need to fight societal pressures to use more and more resources, allegedly to make ourselves more comfortable.
Jenny Tillyard
Seaford, East Sussex
