United States (Kentucky): Passive Shower System

Author(s)

• University of Dayton

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

9-1-2010

Abstract

Every summer the University of Dayton Summer Appalachian Project (UDSAP) sends 15 University of Dayton (UD) students to Magoffin County in eastern Kentucky for nine weeks. During this time, the group holds a day-camp for young children, a teen center, and they visit nursing homes. The house has limited indoor plumbing and as a result an outhouse in the backyard is the only restroom and showers are taken on the back deck. Students typically take tap water that is heated with a small hot-water heater and pour it into a bucket with a spigot that hangs overhead.

A need was identified by ETHOS students familiar with the program and it was proposed that a passive shower system be installed. Leaders of both UDSAP and ETHOS supported the idea and a team was assembled. The goal of the project was to construct a system that would harvest rainwater, passively heat the water via the sun, and then provide the heated rainwater for shower purposes.

eCommons Citation

University of Dayton, "United States (Kentucky): Passive Shower System" (2010). ETHOS Technical Reports. 66.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ethos_reports/66