No! The beauty of RainStick’s recirculating shower technology is that it saves 80% water by recirculating and cleaning the water in real time so you can enjoy your full shower, guilt-free.  To give an example, a traditional 10-minute shower using a regular shower fixture with a standard flow rate of 10 litres per minute (or 2.5 gallons per minute) will use 100 litres (26 gallons) of water. With RainStick, only 20 litres (5 gallons) of water at an increased flow rate of 14 litres per minute (or 3.0 gallons per minute) is used.