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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Tap the number out on the receiver buttons ... works every time
Roger that. The first thing I do when I buy a new shower head is to drill out the holes so I can get a decent, strong spray.
I know you could dial a rotary dial phone by quickly pressing and releasing the "hang-up" button(s). One quick "click" of the button dialed a 1, two "clicks" in quick succession dialed a 2, etc.
That's how we did it. Did you devise another way?
Let me guess. Mom and Dad got jobs at the EPA and FCC respectively so they could enhance the lives of others as well.
And that 20% of our shower water being wasted dovetails in nicely with the micromanaging centrally planned communist mindset of Obama and his fellows.
Its another of the “if everyone will air up their tires” silliness. They love their magical thinking. If everyone acts in the way they think is perfect, they the world will be pure again.
Water cannot be wasted. It may be redirected to other places, but it’s moved by evaporation, soil filtration into the ground, or put back into any estuary it was pumped from. The fact that insufficient rain or snow falls cannot meet an ever increasing demand due to cyclical drought has nothing to do with wasting water. Southern California is a desert. Whatever water it gets comes from melting snow pack 100 miles away up in the mountains, or rain from those mountains as the moisture laden air is forced up the slopes of those mountains.
This is just like their limit of 1.6 gallons in your toilet tank.
Instead of one flush with the old 3.5 gallon tank, people now flush 2 to 3 times to get the job done, actually INCREAING the amount of water used.
The first instance of this behavior that I remember vividly was Jimmy Carter lecturing us all to set our thermostats at 65 and put on a sweater - when I was about 12 years old.
When we expect the government to right every wrong and wipe every tear, the government will soon be telling us the right way to wipe our rears.
Mom and dad were doing their duty as the nannies they are supposed to be as parents, not the ones in Washington!
“Those of us behind the lines Salute You!”
Sickening to think of what California used to be to this nation. And of the good people who are utterly powerless now. If the killing of California agriculture for the smelt couldn’t be stopped, nothing can there.
And as long as they choose to send water to the sea rather than farmers, on behalf of a minnow, I will not listen to their lamentations.
In Texas every bait shop has minnows galore in bit round 12 foot galvanized water troughs. You could fill one small warehouse with those and raise all the delta smelts they have ever seen in their wildest hallucinations. Release a trough full into the river as needed. Simple.
But they are just hard headed.
If I take Navy showers in New Jersey, there will be no additional water in California or Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Or must I suffer merely because they are suffering, even if it does nothing to relieve their plight, in order to make them feeeeeeeeel better.
I will shower for as long as I please.
I just got this feeling of deja vu!!!!
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told citizens Wednesday to limit their showers to three minutes because the country is having problems supplying water and electricity.
“Some people sing in the shower, in the shower half an hour,” he said during a televised cabinet meeting. “No kids, three minutes is more than enough. I’ve counted, three minutes, and I don’t stink.”
I did work out a nifty way to beat the shower pull cord. It involved showering with my girlfriend. That’s called compromise.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who classify people in to two kinds of people, and those who do not.
Yep! Tap the hangup buttons at the same timing pulse, matching the number to dial.
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