The days of long , luxurious showers on holiday could be numbered . That 's if the U.S Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) gets its way . The agency has paid researchers $ 15,000 ( around £10,000 ) to develop a wireless device for monitoring water use in hotel room showers . 'Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S. and around the world , ' says a proposal on the EPA 's website . The gadget will fit onto hotel shower fixtures and transmit data back to an accounting system using an app . 'Most hotels do not monitor individual guest water usage and as a result , millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by hotel guests . ' Which is why they want to create an app to monitor the amount of water hotel guests are using - and , they hope , compel people to shorten their shower time by a minute . The gadget will fit onto existing hotel shower fixtures and transmit water usage data back to a central hotel accounting system using an app , which it is hoped will be doled out in major hotel chains . It will be made up of a flow metre , an embedded system and software , and a resource accounting system , and will allow hotel guests to monitor their daily water online or using a smartphone app . The EPA has paid researchers $ 15,000 ( around £10,000 ) to develop a wireless device for monitoring water use . The proposal will be marketed to the hotel industry to reduce costs by promoting water conservation among hotel guests . The current average length of shower is estimated to be 8.2 minutes or 17.2 gallons - but it 's unknown how hotels will encourage guests to limit this . A spokesperson for the EPA told The Washington Free Beacon that calling for the device was not intended to enable the monitoring of guests shower time . 'It ’ s ultimately up to hotels to use technology like the monitors being developed at the University of Tulsa . EPA is encouraging creativity with water conservation efforts , ' they said .
U.S. researchers given £10,000 to develop a device to monitor shower use . Environmental Protection Agency want to save millions of gallons of water . It hopes hotel guest will reduce their shower times by up to one minute .