--- description: Find out why RainStick Shower is one of the best inventions of 2023 title: RainStick Shower: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fe22fc39133c19b/698a4196096a9441026ae3ec/best-inventions-2023-rainstick-shower.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 24, 2023 # Go With the Flow RainStick Shower by [Jeff Wilser](/author/jeff-wilser/) ## Jeff Wilser Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Jon Adrian. Architectural, winery and lifestyle photographer. Okanagan Photographer / Tara Reavie Design Jon Adrian. Architectural, winery and lifestyle photographer. Okanagan Photographer / Tara Reavie DesignJon Adrian Conserving water usually comes with a tradeoff: What you get in savings, you lose in water flow. (Exhibit A: low-flow toilets.) RainStick’s tech, however, saves 80% of water while _doubling_ the flow. Through a retrofit of your current shower, each drop of water is captured from the drain, blasted with UV light for sterilization, then sent upward, where it again falls from the shower head. Each drop is used six times before the device switches to new water. RainStick CEO and co-founder Alisha McFetridge estimates that in a two-person home, the device annually saves “almost a swimming pool’s worth of water.” RainStick Shower: The 200 Best Inventions of 2023 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324734/rainstick-shower/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324734/rainstick-shower/"},"headline":"Go With the Flow","datePublished":"2023-10-24T11:00:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T05:11:21.121Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324734/rainstick-shower/","keywords":["list","franchise","ecommerce","Magazine","best inventions","Best Inventions 2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fe22fc39133c19b/698a4196096a9441026ae3ec/best-inventions-2023-rainstick-shower.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeff Wilser","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jeff-wilser/"}],"creator":"Jeff Wilser","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fe22fc39133c19b/698a4196096a9441026ae3ec/best-inventions-2023-rainstick-shower.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2023/6324734/rainstick-shower/","name":"Go With the Flow"}}]}] ```