Shower head maker may face sanctions

The Washington Times ^ | 12-23-05 | UPI

[John Jorsett]

The showerhead maker said the product has restrictions to comply with laws. A spokesman said individual customers often remove the restrictors themselves.

DO NOT REMOVE THIS RESTRICTOR UNDER PENALTY OF LAW (wink wink).

[Shqipo]

--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.

[oxcart]

First the toilet got GORED! Now they want my shower head? Lets see that make the kitchen sink next right?

When they carry my cold dead body from the shower.

[HardStarboard]

>>>Are you kinda freaky or what?<<<

When your as old as I am, its difficult to get the soap out of all the crevices. Three "body spray" heads helps the process!

don't knock it till you've try it!

[tumblindice]

Another reason to remember Slick Willie fondly, as you
plunge your toilet over & over and flush again & again,
1.) `cause your toilet bowl is `water efficient', and
2.) it's a long way to Washington DC.
http://www.cepis.ops-oms.org/muwww/fulltext/repind48/energy/energy.html

[Spok]

"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,"

Of course, driving a huge over-powered SUV or burning gas in line at the drive through at Starbuck's doesn't count.

[bill1952]

Seattle can relax while my non flow rate restricted plumbing pisses all over it.

[gcruse]

The funny thing is that this comes from the wettest, most water-soaked part of the country, a dreary depressing climate where the sun is referred to as the evil star of the daytime.

[Calvin Locke]

"Hippies. They’re everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but
all they do is smoke pot and smell bad." - E. Cartman

[Blood of Tyrants]

Psst! Yea, you. Come over here. I can hook you up with a beauty that will send 3 gallons of nature's finest into the bowl and take those nasties down the drain like they are supposed to.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I am in awe."

It wasn't that easy...I'm flushed.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Pipe down with those puns! I'm trying to enjoy the flow of the thread here."

Don't be a drip. Others here are trying to let them soak in and you insist on being a wet blanket by trying to rain on their parade!

[TChris]

OK, some fundamental questions on the whole water conservation thing:

As far as I can tell, there are two reasons for mandatory restrictions on water consumption.

1. Effectively reduced capacity of the city's water system, whether because of local drought or population growth. Water must be conserved because there simply isn't enough to serve everyone in the city otherwise.
2. A generalized environmentalism-driven "ethical" requirement to "conserve our resources".

I would argue that:

1. There are surely better alternatives for temporary conservation than regulating individual fixtures.
   1. If population growth is the problem, leading to a city-wide shortage, then the city should increase the water supply. Taxpayers don't vote you authority so you can deny them the services for which they pay.
   2. A restriction on the usage of each household would give citizens more liberty over their individual usage and still accomplish the same thing. It's a simple thing to check the water bill of individual homes and fine those who use too much. If one guy wants to use his monthly allotment of water for one, hot, long, wasteful shower, he should have that option.
   3. I don't know about Seattle, but frequently the city itself, as well as school districts, are among the most wasteful water users. Our local district frequently waters the schools' spacious lawns in the middle of hot, windy summer days, resulting in massive water waste. Physician, heal thyself.
2. "Environmental" water conservation is a power scam. Water is a renewing resource. There is not a limited supply of it which will eventually be used up. All of mankind's use of water is, in the grand scheme of things, a drop in the ocean. Literally.

Conclusion:

Since water is an effectively unlimited resource, especially in Seattle for cryin' out loud, permanent water use restrictions are ridiculous. In the absence of a drought or other temporary water shortage, there is simply no good reason for water use restrictions. If a customer is paying for the water, he should be able to use as much as he likes. If the city's growing, it is the local government's duty to provide the additional needed water as soon as practical.

As for short-term restrictions, they should only be imposed to the water meter level. This should be adjusted based on the number of people living in each home. How the monthly allotment of water is used should be none of the government's business. They certainly should have no say whatsoever about what I use for a shower head or toilet!

[HamiltonJay]

Jeez.. Restricting water flow out of shower heads in Seattle? For crying out loud, there is no water shortage in Seattle.... Bugger Off.. I'll buy and install whatever damned showerhead I want.. if I want too feel like its raining indoors in an area that rains constantly outdoors, then so be it!!!

Insanity.

[JZelle]

I'd like to but am on a well, not enough pressure.

[HamiltonJay]

Then its time to fix the system! I live in a Temporate Rain forest, we get the same amount of rainfall and rainy days a year as Seattle, and there is no common water supply problems.. .hell there is water everywhere...

[Thinkin' Gal]

I think most people would be appalled at others who are wasting energy or water

If he really believes this, then Seattle must have flushed all its bureaucrats?

Talk about a waste of energy. One of Sodom's sins was an abundance of idleness. One has to be rather idle have as a goal, the monitoring and controlling of other people's showering habits. What perverts. Warning to Seattle residents: don't drop your soap.

[Dudesdad]

As a member of the pipefitting trades I would like to clarify a few things.
Water usage is not the paramount concern of low flow fixtures.
It is the waste water they produce. Sewage treatment is the compelling factor.
It is like being 'hoist on your own petard' for the governments of the pantie waists. You first make regulations about the quality of the runoff from sewage treatment tight enough that it becomes very expensive to treat sewage legally.
Then as populations increase the costs increase to treat the effluent. So what to do? You make new regulations to restrict the amount of water entering the sewage treatment system.
The problem these particular liberal pukes have there panties in a knot is that the shower head in question DOES meet the standard as installed according to instructions, but the restrictor (a small part with one or more holes in it) can be easily removed.
How dare you make a product that the owner of said legal product be able to modify themselves! Must be another one of those EVIL corporations!
I just use a 5/16 inch drill bit and drill the unremovable restricors out in my own.
Have a nice shower.

[Fledermaus]

If it's ordered online from outside the city and the state then it's the person who purchased the shower head that is breaking the law. Not the manufacturer.

Liberals are so disgustingly stupid.

[TheBattman]

Dunno why, but I do hate the enviro-nazi-police digging into our bathrooms -

Low-flow toilets that often require two flushes to clear (yeah, that saved a butt-load of water...), to pitiful showerheads.

I's sure that extra .1 gallon per minute will drain the entire left-coast's water supply.

Aren't consumers charged for the water they use? I know I am. This is just plain stupid.