We’re told that we must stop having nice showers and return to only being allowed miserable ones in order to further our worship of Gaia:

Power showers could be banned from sale under Government plans to save water.

It comes as ministers want to cut individual demand from 144 litres a day to 122 litres a day by 2038 to protect supplies.

The plans include the development of new standards for showers and taps which restrict how much water they can use.

This could mean ending the sale of power showers, which use around 10 to 16 litres of water a minute, meaning a five-minute shower can use 80 litres - compared to around 20 litres in a typical electric shower.

This is about as effective as the old Catholic ideas of not eating meat was in saving lovely bunnies. The Catholics at least getting the idea right - it wasn’t about saving bunnies it was about showing devotion to the religion by deliberately depriving oneself. It’s a shriving of the soul thing, not a resource preservation one.

So too limitations on the domestic use of water. As a Grantham Institute tells us:

Only about 3 to 5% of water use happens at home. About 5% is used by industry to provide products and services (all business essentially falls under this category). And the rest?

The rest is from agriculture.

Shaving a bit off the domestic use of water reduces total consumption by fractions of a percentage point. It’s an irrelevance to anything but that worship of Gaia. The western world has largely given up on belief in God - despite the outward observances this coming weekend - but as Chesterton pointed out once that happens men will believe in anything. Which doesn’t, in the slightest, justify permanent Lenten penances in our ablutions being imposed by government.

At least the Catholics gave up forcing those on everyone some centuries back.