Posted on 12/23/2005 10:52:08 AM PST by JZelle
Seattle officials plan to take action against the makers of a showerhead they say violates the city's maximum water flow rate requirement. The decision follows a lab test by Al Dietemann, head of water conservation for Seattle Public Utilities. He obtained the product online whose ads claimed experiences akin to tropical waterfalls, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "The people of Seattle have a very strong environmental ethic, and I think most people would be appalled at others who are wasting energy or water," Dietemann told the newspaper. Dietemann said he had received complaints from local plumbers and developers about body spa and waterfall-type showerheads not conforming to code, the report said.
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If these sanctions go through, the manufacturer is going to get soaked.
The people of Seattle have a very strong environmental ethic
And odor i suppose
I guess Seattle doesn't have any crime, or potholes or traffic problems, since they have the time for this kind of thing. But someone please tell me: Is Seattle short on WATER? I just don't believe it.
This stinks.
Because that one's for washing elephants.
I thought water supplies weren't a problem in Seattle. It's not as if it were located in a desert.
Kramer: Hey. Super's in my bathroom changing my shower head. Have they changed your shower head?
Jerry: No, he's doing mine next. They're low flow you know.
Kramer: Low flow? Well I don't like the sound of that.
Kramer, Newman and a 'salesman' are at the back of a van in an alley.
Salesman: All right, I got everything here. I got the Cyclone F series, Hydra
Jet Flow, Stockholm Superstream, you name it.
Jerry: What do you recommend?
Salesman: What are you looking for?
Kramer: Power, man. Power.
Newman: Like Silkwood.
Kramer: That's for radiation.
Newman: That's right.
Kramer (pointing to the largest one): Now, what is this?
Salesman: That's the Commando 450, I don't sell that one. What about thi-
Kramer: Well that's what we want, the Commando 450.
Salesman, Nah, believe me. It's only used in the circus. For elephants.
Newman: We'll pay anything. We've got the (hands a wad of money to Kramer)
What about Jerry?
Kramer: He couldn't handle that, he's delicate
Does Seattle have a regulation on the manufacture and/or sale of shower heads, or merely the flow rate of showers themselves? Big distinction. To paraphrase the gun debate, shower heads don't waste water, people do.
The showerhead maker said the product has restrictions to comply with laws. A spokesman said individual customers often remove the restrictors themselves.
The showerhead I have has the same "feature", though actually I haven't seen fit to take advantage of it.
If they are this uptight about a showerhead , I guess washing the car or owning a hot tub is out of the question.
That's it! Make swimming pools illegal! How about a maximum number of allowable ice cubes per drink!!
It's not the facts that count. It's the FEELING that they are doing something, even if they aren't. If they lived in the desert, they would conserve sand.
Believe it or not, EVERY year I have ever lived in this area, we are told we are having a DROUGHT. We are made to feel bad for watering our lawns, washing our cars, etc... In the meantime, if I take a trip to visit in-laws in Arizona, they are using water like crazy to fill their pools, artificial lakes, water their golf courses, etc...
Remember, Seattle is the same city where they are going to stop picking up your trash if the garbage man sees that you threw out recyclables. It is crazy.
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