Waterpebble helps reduce water usage

(17/02/2010)

Designed by product designer Paul Priestman, Waterpebble is a device designed to take the effort out of saving water as you shower.

The clever device monitors water going down the plug hole when you shower. Memorising your first shower and using it as a benchmark, Waterpebble then indicates, via a series of ‘traffic lights’, flashing gently from green through to red, when to finish showering. Each time you shower Waterpebble automatically fractionally reduces your shower time helping you to save water without needing to think about it.

“There is a huge imperative to use less water but it’s a difficult thing to quantify” says Paul Priestman. “I wanted to design something that takes the hard work out of going green and that helps people change their behaviour so that eventually they are doing it automatically. The Waterpebble has a mind of its own so that it literally does all the hard work and the user is gently persuaded to use less water”.

Paul Priestman is founding director of Priestmangoode.

Waterpebble is available for £3.75

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