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[quote=Anonymous]This girl is already conserving water by choosing to take a shower rather than a bath. Well, if she's taking 20 minute showers, her water usage is likely about the same as it would be if she took a bath; though it might STILL be even less than a bath as it seems OP's showerhead emits less water per minute than most. So she's hardly single-handedly creating a water shortage ;)

My advise to OP FWIW:
1) Tell her that on school days, she can take up to 15 minutes in the shower in the morning & if she'd like to take a longer shower, she needs to shower in the evenings (& be done in time to go to bed at her normal time so that it doesn't affect her sleep). 
2)Let her shower for however long she choses to on the weekends (provided she doesn't have anyplace she needs to be by a certain time that morning ). It sounds like showering is a means of relaxation/decompression/contemplation for her & I don't think it's worth completely depriving her of that in order to save a few extra gallons of water a week. Adolescence is a stressful time &, as coping devises go, taking long showers on the weekends is pretty harmless!
3)If your DDs are having a hard time getting ready for school on time, have them make their lunches before bed the night before.
4)Never, ever again watch either of your DDs while they are taking a shower! In fact, I don't think you should watch even your DH in the shower unless he knows you're doing it! What an enormous invasion of privacy! Read your "paper" in another room while the girls are shower if that's what you need to do in order to respect their privacy! Or, if neither avoiding looking at the shower while they're in it or being out of your room while they shower is feasible for some reason, tell them to shower in the other bathroom. Do whatever you need to in order to observe proper parent/adolescent daughter boundaries!
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