Posted on 08/05/2009 6:57:32 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
The Girl from 'Impeenema'
A TV ad campaign in Brazil urges folks to urinate in the shower to conserve water ... and save the rain forests.
No matter how long we stay in or what kind of showerhead we use, we all have unique shower routines and rituals, some more complex than others. The Brazilian environmental group SOS Mata Altantica, via a cute, kid-oriented TV ad campaign called "Xixi no Banho," suggests that citizens add one more task to their soaping-up, shampooing, conditioning and shaving routines — peeing.
The group believes that by adding a yellow stream to the morning's shower, one toilet flush can be prevented. If one flush is avoided each day in a single household, 4,380 liters (1,157 gallons) of water is saved per year.
As you'll see in the below, um, "PeeSA," Gandhi, Michael Jordan and Alfred Hitchcock are portrayed emptying their bladders while rinsing off. Now if that's not inspiration for young Brazilians to tinkle in the tub, I don't know what is.
(Excerpt) Read more at mnn.com ...
“Pee .... all that you can pee! .......”
If it’s good enough for Madonna.
Considering the fact that the low flush toilets only use 1-2 gallons/water per flush while your average shower uses a lot more water than that. I don’t see there’s much water savings here. One gallon/day is supposed to be something?!
Probably depends some on how much you pay for water, or what capacity your well has.
Didn’t George Costanza and Elaine had a debate about this in a Seinfeld episode?
I don’t see what the problem is. The PVC Schedule 40 from the shower drain meets up with the toilet drain pipe about 16 inches away from the shower. It goes to the same place.
So it’s like another activity then?
The great wild world of your backyard awaits you.
And it doesn't use any water at all.
I'm peeeeing in the rain,
Just peeing in the rain.
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again.
( ^ 8 }
The deck works for me. My water bill was down a dollar this month.
Athletes Foot
I’ve been peeing in the shower for as long as I can remember. I pee right on my feet. I never get athletes foot.
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This is hysterical - thanks for posting! :)
It’s threads like this that really piss me off.
Uh, BRB....
I have to go pee on a tree.
At least they’re not doing the whole Triple S in the shower
More encouragement for people to pee in swimming pools. Great.
Get over your “inhibitions”.
REAL environmentalists would poo poo the idea of taking showers altogether.
You can take a BATH once a week and each family member can take turns reusing the bathwater that has been drawn. Please don’t pee in the bathwater...
Kramer: “Well, thank you.”
Elaine: “Here's to Peggy, on her first week of being germ-free, free.”
[all four make toast]
Kramer: “Yeah. And here's to David Puddy for helping me install a much needed and much appreciated garbage disposal in my bathtub.”
[all four make another toast]
Peggy: “You have a garbage disposal in your bathtub?”
Kramer: “Oh, yeah, and I use it all the time. Yeah, I made this whole meal in there.”
Elaine: “This food was in the shower with you?”
Kramer: “Mm-hmm. I prepared it as I bathed.”
[Peggy, Elaine, and Puddy all gag and wretch]
Puddy: “Oh, germs. Germs. Germs!”
< /seinfeld >
Try millions.
Good point! From now on, to conserve water, I will be bathing in my toilet!
(Now if the the neighbors would just quit complaining.) ;-)
I decreased my pool-to-toilet trips by simply peeing off my balcony. It was awesome, I felt like a little kid again, except I was a kid with guns awaiting the looters, while drinking warm beer.
I never asked my downstairs neighbors what they felt like, but they were probably a little sad that their plants died from all the uric acid.
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