Shane Jacobson, best known as the star of the film Kenny, wants us all to limit our showers to four minutes. Heading an ad campaign for Sydney Water, he says that while the dams may be full at the moment, they can quickly empty. We need to develop good habits now to survive the next drought.

I’m happy to help, but I’m starting from a low base. I must whisper a confession: I have poor water habits.

For a start, there’s the shower. I shave while taking a shower, and even though I do quite a poor job, hacking away at my face, it still adds an unnecessary minute or two. It also means I never get around to tidying up the hair on my throat, which leaves me looking like a gorilla who has had his head dunked in a bucket of Nair.

Why don’t I shave at the sink like a normal person? Like every other Sydney chap, I don’t have the time. The only difference is the rest of them do it in the car, when hurtling down the M1 at 100 km/h.

Compared to that lot, I believe I’m the better person.

Richard Glover has a lot of water sins.Credit: Brook Mitchell

Then there’s the teapot. What I should do is boil the kettle, pour a little in to warm the pot, wait two minutes, then reboil the jug for a minute to make the tea.

Mate, that’s three minutes I do not have, not when I have Jocasta wailing, “If I don’t get a cup of tea within two minutes, I shall surely die.”

And so, while the jug is boiling, I run the hot water tap – the elixir of life from Warragamba Dam draining down the sink – then heat the pot once the tap water becomes warm.

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22.03.2024

Shane Jacobson, best known as the star of the film Kenny, wants us all to limit our showers to four minutes. Heading an ad campaign for Sydney Water, he says that while the dams may be full at the moment, they can quickly empty. We need to develop good habits now to survive the next drought.

I’m happy to help, but I’m starting from a low base. I must whisper a confession: I have........

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