Taking showers everyday is very American and unnecessary

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36. in India they take baths daily

the daily shower is not so much American as it is "America post 1970". My parents never showered daily.

However, water is never "wasted". Maybe the chemicals and energy used to TREAT water are wasted, but the water goes into the drain or into the air and is recycled back into the water cycle.

The only water that is wasted is that which is in plastic bottles that people don't drink all of it and then the plastic bottle ends up in a landfill with the water still inside it.

But I don't think those plastic bottles are as indestructible as people think. The plastic molecules may last forever as a pollutant, but the bottle itself will break into little plastic pieces or be crushed and broken fairly quickly I am guessing and then the water inside can seep back into the ground.