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I want to know how to calculate the volume of water (with respect to water flow and shower sprinkler geometry) required to sodden human body from head to feet for a human getting shower with sprinkler.

Jafarino
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  • Jafarino, my apologies, I misread your question. The answer is that a 5 minute shower requires 30 litres of water, assuming the shower delivers 6 litres a minute. Every extra minute in the shower will use 6 litres of water. –  Aug 08 '16 at 19:28
  • You won't get a precise answer if you can't precisely say what "sodden" means. People don't soak up water the way sponges do. – Solomon Slow Aug 08 '16 at 20:03

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The average adult has about eight pounds (3.6 kilograms), or about 22 square feet (2 square meters) of skin. It may help to put that in perspective -- a standard doorway is 21 square feet, and the average adult's skin would fill all of that space.

It's just the wetted area you need.

So how much water do you need to complete cover 2 square meters of skin to a depth of 1 cm.

EDIT

From the comments below and from reading the question properly, the answer is, based on the assumption that the average electric shower delivers six litres a minute, a 5 minute shower uses 30 litres. 

My sincere apologies to the OP for misreading the question.

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  • Thank you very much count_to_10 for you answer, but unfortunately I not arrived to understand how to calculate the water exposure volume, I need this for making a study about impact of hydrotherapy on human health. – Jafarino Aug 08 '16 at 18:32