Podmods, Maintenance, Tips and Tricks : Outside Shower Enclosure

Bathing leaves behind potential pathogens that can present a public health issue when sufficiently concentrated, as could be the case in a campground, especially those that are heavily used.  The same for tossing dishwater.  When boon docking it poses little risk simply because there aren't enough bugs or other contaminates (assuming the use of biodegradable soaps) to create a problem for campers or the fauna in the area.  

Certainly, campground managers have to contend with the tent campers who don't have access to a gray water holding tanks for their used dishwater and minimal hygiene water waste, but since we ponders have the option to contain our gray water, it helps to reduce the risk and is the responsible thing to while in campgrounds.  It all boils down to how much is the impact and what is the risk.  Where the concentration of tent campers is sufficiently high that their gray waster waste is risky to the public, then it is the responsibility of public officials to provide some reasonable means of disposal to ensure public health.

As for the aesthetic issue of exposing one's uncovered self to the public, that depends on the sensibilities of the folks around.  For me, I'd find it delightful to watch Jennifer Lopez rinse off in a trailer side shower, but my wife would, shall we say, "not be pleased" with me even if I only peeked at such a marvelous sight.  It is an issue of common sense and sensibility to those around you.  Some times when I go to the beach, I wonder why there aren't lawyers set up with card tables to sign up clients to sue some of the beach goers for the intentional infliction of mental distress cause by their failure to adequately cover themselves.