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I have limited my water consumption (annual "allowance"), which I already set to about 1/3 of the average.
If I have some budget left, I can treat myself to a hot bath, maybe once or twice a year. Nothing cures aching joints like a bath with some Benzyl nicotinate added ๐
The rest of the time: (almost) cold showers with as little water consumption as possible.
I think you're forgetting that young children can't take showers and need a bath tub.
Actually, most apartments in China where I was born didn't have baths, only showers. The easiest solution was to buy a child bathing tub, which is about a quarter or fifth the size of a standard North American bathtub, and put that in the shower stall. Also uses way less water for children since the tub has a smaller volume to begin with.
I view it as the luxury it is. Something to be enjoyed occasionally to pamper myself. I have a bath maybe a handful of times a year since I've moved from spaces that only had showers. It's certainly wasteful of water and requires more preparation, so I usually can't make enough time for it and would rather not waste the water.
Personally, I never use a bathtub for various reasons (an important one being environmental reasons), but I'd like to note here that in some places, like Japan, people take turns bathing in the same bathtub without changing the water, which already shows that a bath for a single person as opposed to a shower should be considered a luxury & certainly not be taken for granted.
In case you had to choose between a bath with used water or a freshwater shower, I'd much prefer the latter. Plus in most cases, it's also cleaner.
However, if you really enjoy taking baths in your own private bathtub, it should be fine as long as you don't do it too often while remembering that water shortage is increasingly becoming a problem in many regions of the world.
Why is it that you always pretend the world is so black and white that only westerners have bathtubs?
The last three apartments I lived in in Europe didn't have a bathtub and the house I shortly inhabited in south africa even had a small indoor pool with a shower head.
I think it's pretty much proven that a shower 'uses' 70L or so of water and a bathtub about 200L. The thing is, you can't really use water, only make it dirty.
If you have wastewater treatment, it's mostly irrelevant how much water you use. I guess the most important part is how the water is heated.
I usually just shower and like to take a bath maybe once a month to once a week for relaxation? The more stressed I am, the more baths I take. So stopping human stress may be good for the environment after all...
Water treatment is also costly and even though you might have a small effect, you should try to use the least water you can. But yeah, heating is definitely a concern too.
it belonges to where you live and how much water is there...
you can not store water. if it comes out of a mountain, it will run down. if you use it or not. why not using it?