The three-minute shower timer ...

Melbourne - The Accor hotel group in Australia is to offer its guests checking in to the Novotel Melbourne a complimentary three-minute shower timer to help conserve dwindling water supplies.

The last decade has been the driest on record in Victoria with river flows and reservoir levels at an all-time low. Accor says that with guests across 324 rooms taking three-minute showers, “that’s a lot of water being saved”.

The Novotel Melbourne on Collins will also be part of an Accor company wide global environmental initiative.