Posted on 04/10/2015 8:27:53 AM PDT by PROCON
The University of Tulsa has received $15,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop the technology for a wireless system to measure how long hotel guests take showers and how much water they use.
"Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S. and around the world," according to a description of the project on the EPA's website. "Most hotels do not monitor individual guest water usage and as a result, millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by hotel guests.
"The proposed work aims to develop a novel low-cost wireless device for monitoring water used from hotel guest-room showers."
The grant was reported by Justin Haskins, editor of The Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think tank, in an essay for The Daily Caller.
Haskins noted that the EPA plans to use the information to develop a national database of shower times and water use for hotel guests.
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Warmunists Unite!
if you like your showerhead you can keep your showerhead
Oh my goodness! A freakin’ study? Really? They’re called flow meters for cryin’ out loud and they already have electronic models which can send the data to a computer. Many towns now use them so they can read water meters without having to send someone out to do it. They’re also used in the aquarium industry.
Cameras in every bathroom?
Long showers + hotel room = an extramarital affair in many cases. No telling where and how THAT data might come in handy someday.
Many years ago I took the family to camp at Lake Isabella in California, there was a water shortage/drought at that time, if you wanted to take a shower you had to feed the meter coins. If you wanted a hot shower you had to feed it even more, such a totally different experience from when I was a child camping with my parents. So put coin fed meters in place, hey they could do it for beds, buffet lines, the perfect new revenue source for liberals!
They’ll just put 5 minute timers on them and charge how many times it’s used.
Oh my goodness! A freakin’ study? Really? They’re called flow meters for cryin’ out loud and they already have electronic models which can send the data to a computer. Many towns now use them so they can read water meters without having to send someone out to do it. They’re also used in the aquarium industry.
Hey, you missed a spot.
Big Brother is in the hotels.....how long before they put speakers/listening devices in our homes to monitor what we say when ‘no one is listening’?
“Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S. and around the world,”
So if people weren’t in hotels they wouldn’t be taking the same amount of showers for the same amount of time? Which one of Obama’s buddies will be getting the grant money?
I never shower at home.
I only shower at hotels.
Maybe that’s why my family sits upwind.
liberals: “get government out of my bedroom and into my bathroom!”
And, by the way, this seems like a brainless and punititive way to solve the usage problem. If you really wanted to save water, as opposed to just making people miserable, get rid of the tub spout and just have a showerhead that can be used to fill the tub. In many, if not most tub/shower combinations, much of the water flows uselessly out of the tub spout and is wasted.
This study/grant has creepy pervert written all over it.
Here’s what I’d do: at checkout time, id take the bags to the car, go to the dash and settle the bill - in cas - and then call my wife, still in the room, tell her to turn on the shower and meet me at the car.
Another fiasco brought to you by communists, Marxists and socialists.
The only reason there is a water shortage, it that they want to protect some kind of endangered smelt.
The smelt need to be captured, battered, fried and served with a nice tartar or cocktail sauce.
The EPA will grant the $15,000 for any college to study anything.
Next up will be timing how long a fart makes sounds.
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