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[normative_]

Take a tip from the Turkish baths if you're stuck with a bathtub and need to wash your hair:

- Take some kind of unbreakable bowl with you. A pitcher would do it too.
- Mix your fresh water when you need to rinse.
- Pour.
- Repeat.

[qrypt]

Result: you end up bathing in shampoo residue.

The Japanese have the bath thing right: you only get in once you've had a proper shower. 

[wegie]

the icy water or the scalding water?

If it is icy or scalding you are doing it wrong. You should run both taps to fill the bath so it is WARM.
Get in. When you need to rinse your hair, lean backwards so your scalp is in the water in which you are sitting. This is not rocket science.

erm... if I've been sitting in the water... bathing... isn't it then dirty? Why in the world would I want to rinse my hair in dirty water?

You do the hair first, then the rest of you.

Top down decomposition of the problem.

Result: you end up bathing in shampoo residue.

Better than soap scum in your hair!

[seniorscholar]

Just to add perspective, I work in the US and our office bathroom sink does not have a mixer tap.  I'm in an old building in an old city and the bathroom hasn't been updated since, well, at least since the early 1900s.

My US 1980s office building doesn't have mixer taps in the restrooms. I've always suspected they just want us to use the cold water. With lots of liquid soap, it works just fine.

Indeed, I'm pretty sure that the WPA-built classroom building that's recently been torn down didn't have any hot water: one tap in the restroom only. (No one with tenure ever had to teach there, so I'd have to check with a grad student to be certain.)

[notaprof]

Our campus bathrooms all have one spigot with a hot and cold handle but it think the hot water one is just for show.  Water is cold and stays cold no matter which handle you turn.

[babbinacara]

Face it, almost as soon as they got past post-war rationing in the UK, they got Thatcher.

Decades of putting up with inadequate excuses for housing, transportation, food (bloater paste, anyone?) and job opportunities, on top of millennia-old sorry-a$$ traditions of doing things like having picnics in the rain, mean that the innovative idea of the mixer tap and all the glorious life-enhancement it brings to bathing and washing dishes is, well, just too much to grasp for most long-term UK residents.

[drspouse]

There are a number of public buildings in the UK (e.g. RCUK) with signs warning that the water is VERY HOT.

Legionella measure.