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.
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.
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.
What more can you do to appease these people?
Lo flo toilets. Lo flo showers. Yada yada.
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/
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.
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.
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 only care about my water use because it’s the only thing on my water bill I have any control over. I have seven-eight things itemized I get billed for, water use is only one, and it’s the only one I can directly control. All the others are maintenance fees, service fees, metro shared service fees, etc. Those are fixed and always rise.
My water bill is 75-78% things other than my water usage. And that is with me watching how I use my water.
These assholes sit there and talk about lowering your usage like it’s going to help our bottom line. How can it really if 75-78% of what I am paying has nothing to do with my personal water usage.
A few years back, in Colorado, we had a dry spell and the city government set up a rationing plan.
As ordered, people stopped using as much water and the city raised the rates because they claimed that they couldn’t cover the operational expenses.