Posted on 04/02/2015 10:45:23 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Comedy wouldn’t be funny if there weren’t a kernel of truth in it. Remember the 1996 Seinfeld episode based on the problem with the new, low-pressure showerheads that couldn’t rinse the shampoo out of Kramer’s hair? That led him to contact some Yugoslav black marketeers so he could buy and covertly install a high-power showerhead instead. (Naturally, that one proved to be much too powerful.)
Twenty years ago, Americans were already feeling the effects of nanny state regulations on their use of water and things have been getting steadily worse in that respect. That’s because it’s now almost impossible to keep politicians and bureaucrats from doing what so many of them love to do: dictating how Americans live.
In 1994, Congress mandated that showerheads deliver no more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute – hence the Seinfeld script. Why this busybody rule? Because some people with political influence maintain that we’re using too much water and it’s up to the government to prevent that.
Consider the argument advanced in this recent Washington Post article: If 20 percent of our shower water is wasted, “you’re talking about over 200 billion gallons, in a world where gigantic states (California) and megacities (Sao Paulo, Brazil) are suffering from drought and water scarcity problems are expected to become still worse in the decades ahead.”
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Yep. Mrs. Hugin was telling me last night about how someone was trying to give away a brand new land line phone, and nobody wanted it. I pointed out that your average 10 year old will probably never have talked through a phone with wires.
Calif resevoir report has Folsom at 90% of average capacity with more water than this time last year.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES
That’s better than I thought though that’s average, not “capacity”. Still, it’s certainly not from rainfall, so it makes me wonder. I know snowpack is very low, and it’s been very warm. Is it maybe just that the snow is melting early? That wouldn’t bode well for the summer.
Yes.
Another rotary dial trick I learned was dialing 41095 and then immediately hanging up thew phone. That would cause the phone to ring after about a 5 second pause. When answered, there was, of course, no one one the line. I used to irritate the heck out of my mom with that one.
I guess it was a “ring test” for technicians to use or something. A friend of mine in my 5th grade class told me about it.
(41090 also worked, but the “rings” were spaced too close together and did not resemble a real phone call)
i take a shower...
the water i do not consume (drink)goes down the drain..
drain leads to sewer...
sewer leads to water treatment plant...
water plant cleans said water and returns it to the aquafer..
where exactly is this waste???
Shhhhhhhhhhhh!
Not only shower heads. I removed all the restrictors from each fixture when we built our house. I have also improved a numbeer of motel and hotel showers over the years. A Leatherman is a handy tool.
Other than the very few gallons of water that we’ve sent to outer space....there is as much water on Earth now as there was on day 1....it is virtually impossible to “waste” water. We can certainly misuse it and when there is a temporary shortage we can certainly mishandle its distribution. If we can reduce the cost of desalinization in the coastal areas....problem solved.
I’m hard pressed to install a hazardous tho ‘approved’ device in my house.. With 1-800-HAZMAT4U stickers.. No less.
I have ample supply of the old fashioned bulbs on hand to survive me. :-)
Good point thx!
True...early ones very easy to remove...later ones a little harder....mine are all gone!!!
Foreign toilets git it done in one. ToTo.
Down and upstairs here. :-)
When I was in sales and on the road, I always stayed at the same motels in whatever city I was in...I carried my own shower head and would simply replace theirs with mine....some of theirs basically sprayed a mist which was never warm enough...terrible things!!!!
They really don’t care about the little people like you and me. It is all about the “bigger picture.”
Me too — we stocked up.
There were very heavy rains in Nov/Dec. Snow pack is nonexistent. Water level better than last year at this time but not for long. 5% snowpack vs 33% last year.
Bfl
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