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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
California is sitting right next to the largest body of water on the planet.
Most shower heads have a removable flow restricting gadget, from what I’ve seen.
We eventually figured a way to wedge the pivot and keep it flowing. They announced our being discovered by shutting off the hot water valve mid stolen shower, going to full cold water. So we stopped that.
My parents also responded to high phone bills by putting one of those locks on the rotary dial phones we had in the house. I figured how to cheat that device too, but never shared it with my siblings.
It’s really about this evil rich oppressor country having long showers and those poor oppressed people having to wait for it to rain to take a bath and having to share the bath water with the rest of the family and then use the water to make soup. It’s not about conserving water.
Can I say it for FR, Jim?
FU leftists and your continual crusade to dehumanize us and quantfy our daily habits and “punish” us for effing profit!
Sick of their BS.
Vermont has an occasional bit of drought, but usually it is one of the country’s wettest states. That’s why it’s so green. There are ponds, lakes, and streams all over the place. So, I must say, it’s a bit crazy to make us buy low pressure shower heads, reduced flush toilets, low water washing machines, and all the rest of it, when the ground outside our house is squishy most of the time, and the underground water level is usually about an inch below the surface.
When we first bought the house, we had to dig drainage ditches all over the place. The barns were tipping over because the soil was soft under their foundations. The basement was flooded. Several apple trees pulled up their roots and fell over. And so on.
Then the gubbermint starts imposing regulations on us that we have to save water, even though its coming out of our ears. Oh, of course! Why didn’t we think of that?
The oceans are full of water. Run some pipe and desalinate it.
Like Obamacare, one size fits all.
Liberals enjoy being dictators and amplifying problems that were minor inconveniences before. Others are content with an extra couple of minutes in the shower.
Reminds me of when Algor was running for president. Then-NH governor/now US Senator Jeanne Shaheen authorized the dumping of millions of gallons of water from a dam so that candidate-for-president Algor could have a photo op in a canoe down river.
The region was experiencing scattered pockets of drought, and I wondered if that water couldn't have been piped somewhere to alleviate the shortage in an affected area, if the dam was indeed at capacity.
Recently read an amazing article about how Oregon could tap the Columbia river that could satisfy all of California’s needs. It wouldn’t harm navigation, fishing, or anything. Right now it all flows out into the pacific,,,
Oregon and Washington would get rich. Cali would have water.
But all three of the dirty hippies oppose it tooth and nail.
And California opposes massive desalination plants.
California turned the San Joaquin valley into a dustbowl so the water can flow out into the sea,,,,for a minnow.
Screw California. I am going to enjoy seeing them suffer the shortages and strict rules that the leftists cause everywhere they go.
Turning a land of milk and honey into a third world dustbowl.
What more can you do to appease these people?
Lo flo toilets. Lo flo showers. Yada yada.
Screw California.
Bring It ON!!
Those of us behind the lines Salute You!
Bring some soap .
Do these morons actually think water can only be used once?
Every conservative should buy a shower head splitter and enjoy your shower while sticking it to the liberals :)
http://www.showersplus.com/shop/
They’d have enough water if they would have/should have:
* continued construction of water reservoirs and waterworks
* not sent water downstream for the sacred salmon and smelt
* not added millions of hispanics to the population
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