[ChildOfThe60s]

The IRS is a piker compared to this lawless, fascist agency.

[Paladin2]

Wasted? Who is to judge someones lifestyle?

[bray]

When do we bulldoze this Communist agency?

Pray America is waking

[Michael.SF.]

Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S. and around the world

Probably more in the US than in Europe, judging from the last crowded tube ride I took.

[ScottinVA]

What are hotels going to do.. charge by the gallon?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Eventually the EPA wants to be able to charge every person per liter of water they use.

[NCLaw441]

Is there any evidence that hotel guests use more water in the shower when in the hotel as opposed to at home, where they’d also be taking showers?

[defconw]

Makes me want to rent a room and leave the shower on all day!

[rktman]

LOL! When we used to travel a little more, anytime I saw one of those conservation placards about reusing the towels by hanging them or if you wanted fresh towels, leave them on the floor or in the tub, we’d always toss them in the tub. Just trying to do our part in keeping the planet warm to sustain life.

[needmorePaine]

Showers, BBQs, lawnmowers, then what?

You breathe too much. We have to modify that behavior.

[oh8eleven]

“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.”
HTH do they know that? The conclusion has been determined before any investigation has begun. Feckin' commies.
And I guaran-damn-tee, the follow up investigation will be in YOUR bathroom.

[Yaelle]

I could see why hotels would like to know, so they could give surcharges to people really going over a reasonable amount. Especially in draught areas. But the EPA?? Sheesh.

[EternalVigilance]

Flush the EPA.

Flush twice.

Plunge if necessary.

[a fool in paradise]

[lormand]

Just tell them you are homo or claim minority status, or both. You will get special treatment and exemptions for just about everything.

[mrsmith]

I thought hotels already installed peepholes in their bathrooms for this purpose?

[PGalt]

OUT OF CONTROL executive branch ALERT!

DEFUND/DISMANTLE the EPA

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_States

http://www.epa.gov

In an unrelated, but contemporary, event, Congress established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970, at what may have been the dawn of the Watergate Era. According to the EPA website, the agency’s very first budget in Fiscal Year (FY) 1970 was just over $1 billion. In the ensuing years, the agency’s budget grew steadily until it exceeded $10 billion in FY 2010. That amounts to an average annual increase of about $225 million over 40 years. That growth in the EPA budget includes a very large increase from FY 2009 to FY 2010 of $2.65 billion, a one year increase of more than 10 times the annual average increase over 40 years, and about 35% over the FY 2009 budget.

http://www.koleyjessen.com/resources/following-the-money-a-quick-look-at-the-epa-budget/

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY:
The agency gets $8.1 billion, down $60 million from the last fiscal year. The agency’s budget has been slashed by $2.2 billion, or 21 percent, since fiscal 2010, according to GOP aides. The cuts mean that EPA will have to reduce its staffing to the lowest levels since 1989.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/12/09/whats-in-the-spending-bill-we-skim-it-so-you-dont-have-to/

More cuts. Reduce staff and budget until eliminated.

[Smokin' Joe]

Wasn't it these jerks pushed for "water saver" shower nozzles?

I'm a big, hairy guy. It takes a lot of water to wash the fur, so to speak, and with some of those d@mned things, it takes a while just to get wet enough to wash.

Now they want to eff with how long (how much time is wasted by the piddling amount of water is coming out of the nozzle)?

If the water gets cut off while I'm still covered with soap, my visit to the front desk will be bloody unpleasant for everyone.--Because that is what is next from this bunch of jerks. (Who go on hot tub party expeditions, oops, seminars, on our dime)

Maybe I'll just take a bar of soap down to the pool..

[Alex Murphy]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower. 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.” “Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S. and around the world,” an EPA grant to the University of Tulsa reads. “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."

If you like your plumbing, you can keep your plumbing.

[Iron Munro]

“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.”

False Statement.

Setting up a Straw Man to knock down with more Nanny State regulations.

They have no way of knowing if any water at all is wasted.

First the hotel showers.

Then private home showers.

Then they will want to monitor how much we urinate.