Why would it save water or help the planet? We just don't flush every time, that saves serious water, as the old chant says: "If it's yellow, let it mellow..."
Urine is actually sterile - so no big deal either way.

Here is a link to a discussion on the Compost Forum - it's interesting and hilarious - these folks are truly dedicated.

Here is a link that might be useful: To pee or not to pee...

I never had access to a shower until I was an adult and married, other than at the gym in my last year of secondary school. So, deep in my psyche, connecting peeing to bathing would be tantamount to letting it fly in a tub. At the farm, and also at my aunt's house there wasn't any bathtub. It was the same tub one rinsed their laundry in, and they heated water once for the family and each bather had their turn at it in succession. IOW, you hoped the person bathing before you wasn't too dirty and you surely hoped they hit the outhouse before the bath. And when we had one deep tile tub in Japan, water was so precious and had to be heated by charcoal, we did the same thing.......and bathed in a basin before we soaked in the tub.

So, peeing and bathing shall never go together in my mind. However, I have no qualms about dropping my drawers outside and marking. LOL. As Lilo says, urine is sterile if one is healthy and it does deter grazing by beasties. I would not, however, add it to my compost pile or in and around my foods, safe or not.

If we were truely serious about water conservation in the name of saving the planet, we'd engineer and use better toilet designs. One old toilet we had in France was an overhead tanked pull chain. It allowed you to merely use as much water as necessary to dispose of the load you wanted to say good-bye to.

We replaced our fixture here when we remodeled our bath. It came with the mandatory low water usage flush mechanism. What a joke. Don't tell me people don't flush multiple times to get rid of solid evidence, and use considerably more water in the process than they did in the older fixtures.

If I were a single woman, this house would have a compost toilet, but I don't think it would suit my DH's sensibilities.

DH and I have cut our flushing in half by asking each other, "Do you have to go?" (#1, of course!) Usually, we do.

Just in the last few months I heard/saw/read, "Never pass up a good chance to pee". I remember that and even if I think I don't have to, usually can manage something. :>)

As for going in the shower, I won't say I've never done it, but it was long time ago!

In my case it really doesn't matter, the water comes outta the ground 51 feet from where it goes back into the drainfield after my bod has finished with it...i suppose i leave a few pints here and there everyday, but they find their way back into the chain eventually.

But i'm not ashamed to admit to peeing in the shower...if for some reason i'd be there long enough that the pre-shower tinkle (inspired by the sound of running water) wouldn't be sufficient...i even pee in the pool on occasion, the occasion usually involving the x-treme kidney-stimulating and inhibition-lowering effects of alcohol....plus it just sucks to drip all the way through the house and fight with a wet suit...

Been a REAL long time since i squatted and squirted outside though. Last time i went to a concert at Deer Creek (I ain't calling it Verizon Wireless Stadium) south of Indy, the parking lot party assembled for the CSNY show was a lot of fun, and the cornfields around the place were WELL fertilized...and i remembered why we used to wear long skirts to outdoor concerts!!

well, it's been said that it's the principle of the thing that counts.

Pee in your shower, pee in the ocean, same principle.

I come from an age when there weren't service stations, with rest rooms, at every little cross road. The stories about having to stop and head for the bushes with the little ones. Oh, my!! and the time the DH told me me that he started to call and warn me about the snake crawling along behind me.....but decided that maybe he shouldn't bother me at such a time.

If I think deeply about it, would that become a philosophical question? Maybe not.

Since I only shower once a day I would only be saving one flush if I peed at that time. Since I don't flush after every pee anyway, so I can save water, I think this is an academic question for me. However, it is is a funny kind of subject and I like it for that. We have become awfully staid in here of late :)

Peeing in the shower is very different from peeing in the tub. I've peed behind bushes, I've peed under bushes. I have peed in the Jordanian desert behind a truck...I am not so fussy if the need is great:) And compared to all of that peeing in a running shower hardly seems unsanitary, sinful or an issue.

I think I'll do it tomorrow.

I'll call NPR and let them know. LOL

Why not? Shower drain goes to same place as toilet drain, septic system or public sewer system with treatment. Now if you reuse your grey water, don't think I would. Or if you had a slow drain in the shower and could end up standing in pee water.

When I was a kid we had a cat that was trained to pee in the basement drain, over which there was a primative shower (Dad's private, us girls used the real shower upstairs).

When I was a little girl I used to get stys a lot -- that infection on one's eyelid which hurt so bad even a loud noise would send pain shooting through it. I read somewhere that peeing along side the road caused them and since we lived in the country and spent most of our time outside, I did a lot of that. After leaving home and becoming a tad more modest, I haven't had a sty since. Go figure.

There is something about running water and my bladder -- so yes, I have been known to relieve myself in the shower. I'm glad to see I'm not alone.

Well, I just did it! I peed in the shower. No thunderclap, no lightning strike, no guilty feeling. Rather liberating actually:)

I love this place:)

Oh Geez...can I be next? please? please?

I love this place, too. I come here to get my daily fix. Sometimes, if not too much has been posted, I leave feeling disappointed. Not today, though. :>)

My upbringing wouldn't let me deliberately pee in the shower.
However, accidents do happen. ;0)

Writing in the snow was fun. Writing does not stay where you put it in the shower.

You have a pen, Don. Those of us not so endowed use invisible ink and the more sporting scribing method of "catch and release". And remember, a snowfall goeth before a thaw.