“We just want to monitor it. For now.”
Next time you’re enjoying a hot shower, don’t.
The Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to crack down on shower sneaks. You know who you are. You’re the type of selfish person who steps into a hotel shower and lingers too long.
Maybe you’re trying to get clean. Maybe you’re shaving. Maybe you enjoy the sensory blast of instant hot water on your skin that isn’t going on a home water-heater bill.
The EPA doesn’t care about such frivolous things. Its concern is the amount of water you are “wasting.” Whatever it is, it’s too much.
So, the agency has issued a grant to the University of Tulsa to develop a shower water usage monitor by Aug. 14. Assuming market support, one would be installed on every hotel room’s shower head to measure water consumption and radio it somewhere.
Perhaps the yet-to-be-developed gizmo could shut off water after a specified time; never mind if you’re still soapy. You’re wasting.
Perhaps the data could go to a shower supervisor who’d knock on your door with the unwelcome news that you should have been clean two minutes ago. Or it might go to the front desk to add a shower surcharge to your tab, like the mini-bar bill.
Because the instant a drop of water is used it disappears and can never be used again.
‘We’re running out of water.’
Oh, reducing from 8.2 minutes to 7 minutes is closer to 14% than 10%.
That was supposed to read; ‘We’re running out of water.’
/hysterics Apparently WordPress doesn’t like sarcasm.
You may be able to keep your hot shower, but you’d better watch which way the wind is blowing when you fire up that grill in your backyard. That is, if you know what’s good for your ass!
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I’m genuinely surprised they’re not just requiring hotels to have “trigger-style” shower heads.
And no hot water – you’d just waste perfectly good water waiting for your shower to warm up.
For that matter, why are you traveling at all? That’s wasting energy – better to telecommute from your domicile instead, citizen…
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Yes, let’s leave the globetrotting with huge, carbon boots, to our betters who do it in our name, like Al Gore.
Al Gore’s more of a table shower guy where busty asian hoochies control the water flow for him
This jackboot on your throat is for your own good, you know.
Greetings:
Smart Meters, no doubt.
The California regulators are just having too much fun during this current drought. I mean I know water is an issue but, we can all hear you giggling as you click your boots.
Conserve water, if we use it all up, what are all the “dreamers” supposed to drink?
They can jolly well watch me in the shower all they want.
The eyeful they get will be punishment enough.
VDH, “A Tale of Four Droughts“
The rest of us will be too busy in Hillary Fun Camp to have time to travel.
I recall visiting the Monterey CA region in the late 70s during a major drought period. Just as serious as today.
Within two years I was living on the other side of the bay in Santa Cruz and we had a very wet winter that washed out beaches, bridges, and created deadly mud slides.
I can’t wait for the day that I get to argue with my travel administrator over how much hot water the company is willing to reimburse me for…
How would this even work? What if there are two or four adults in a room? If they shut off my shower, can’t I just turn it back on?
Whyyyyyyy?
Radio? There’ll need to be public notice about the allocated spectrum, which will enable some to build jammers.
Have I mentioned I have a ham radio license? That means I … know people who could build a jammer for me.
How much of this crap are ‘the people’ going to take?
I’m fairly certain that the new primitives don’t shower that much anyways.
One time in my 20s a girl goes from talking about how showering kills you (she didn’t phrase it like this, she talked about natural oils) to an invitation to have a three-way with… her new boyfriend, who I learned about a minute later was one of my good friends.
It was a symphony of wrong. Wait, you just told me you won’t smell good when we get sweaty. Wait, you’re proposing a threeway with two swords. Wait, I know the “boyfriend” you’re talking about, you know we’re friends, don’t you? What?
Anyways, showering might be a bit of divide between left and right.
Are we to deduce from this that people pay to stay in a hotel room so they can take a shower? The shittiest part of a hotel stay is the goddam shower.
Is this Orwellian or just plain stupid? I don’t leave my shower running at home when I stay at a hotel.
Flouridated water destroying one’s precious bodily oils.
Sapping the essence, so to speak.
Jack Ripper’s daughter, perchance?
The low-flow heads on the showers make showers suck in many hotels. If they have a big tub however the unlimited hot water makes for a relaxing soak. IMHO
But since my wife is in a wheelchair we always have to get the roll-in shower rooms which have no tubs so off to the hot tub attached to the pool for me until the EPA bans all hot water and heat to save the children that were aborted anyways.
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Mc4ever59 wrote: How much of this crap are ‘the people’ going to take?
The majority, it seems, will take an awful lot of it, enough of it so that if they ever decide to rebel it will be too late – the shackles welded and locked for good.
As I wrote over at my joint recently:
No matter what you think of bathing, letting bacteria grow and die in your arm pits and nether regions is not a good thing. Show me any mammal with smelly arm pits.
Show me any mammal with smelly arm pits
And I’ll show you a mammal that’s not on the menu for the predators.
Although the scavengers might want a piece.
Life’s a bath, and then you fry.