Stanford? I thought they were supposed to be smart. How hard is it to go down and buy a $5 shower head. I used to work on the road and my Shower Massage was the first thing I packed. Especially in southern Cal. They had water restrictions almost everywhere I stayed.
I think you're missing the point, socialists don't believe in doing things yourself. Unless it's done by the government at 10 times the cost, it's just not good.
This is the perfect example of the socialist madness. No matter how big your government is, it will always be made up of a lot of little people, and "reforms" will always affect the little people in the end. Socialists always manage to delude themselves with their rethoric though, all "reforms" are always targeted agains "others", big corporations, rich people, wasteful people, ignorant people. Any label they can come up with the fool themselves into thinking it won't affect them. Well, guess what, this time it came back to bite you.
Yeah, they’re smart. They’re just getting the school, not themselves, to pay for the non-low-flow showerheads. On a similar note, my school has low-flow-high-pressure showerheads installed in our gyms and some dorms, and they’re far nicer than the standard ‘wasteful’ ones.