Barry Poppins is a national tragedy.
Posted on 06/23/2015 3:51:55 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The EPA is concerned that the average shower, which lasts just eight minutes, uses 18 gallons of water, and has asked Americans to reduce their shower length by at lest one minute
The EPA wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower. The goal of the project is to change the behavior of Americans when they stay at hotels. (1)
The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to ‘modify their behavior.’
The EPA is concerned that the average shower, which lasts just eight minutes, uses 18 gallons of water, and has asked Americans to reduce their shower length by at lest one minute. The EPA also has a WaterSense program that challenges hotels to track their water use and upgrade their restrooms with low-flow toilets and shower heads. (1)
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Bfl
I could visualize the front desk clerk responding to the alarm light at the front desk for a visitor who takes a shower too long ... press the emergency 12,000 volt shower terminator button!!!!
Fine. I’ll blow 40 gallons on a bath then.
I would never take a tub bath in a hotel. Yuck!
But I will now always draw a tub bath. and drain it out later.
Yet Kalifornia continues to dump millions of gallons of fresh water into the ocean to “save” a bait fish.
The EPA leadership wants all Americans to smell as badly as they do.
Plus, most modern showerheads have a flow rate of one gallon and a half gallons per minute (1.5 GPM) so the EPA is full of shit.
Now Big Sister McCarthy (the new McCarthyism) is coming into your showers. I don’t think there will be room enough for both of you so you’ve got to go.
Nope, I’ll jump out to dry and leave it running.
“Oh, damn, did I forget to turn off the shower TOO?”
I think people would faint dead away if the EPA ever proposed anything sensible. I guess it would mean they had a new adminstrator,for sure.
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