Posted on 03/18/2015 12:30:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The initiative would also pressure guests to reuse dirty linens.
Claims of bureaucratic overreach within the Environmental Protection Agency are nothing new; however, its latest initiative is ruffling a few more feathers than usual. With funding from a grant made to the University of Tulsa, the EPA hopes to develop a prototype for a device that would monitor and report the water use of hotel guests across America.
“Most hotels do not monitor individual guest water usage,” the grant states, “and as a result, millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by hotel guests.”
As per usual, the federal government asserted its position as the arbiter of personal behavior by explaining how individuals will now be shamed into using less water.
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The device being developed through the grant, the EPA confirmed, “will be designed to fit most new and existing hotel shower fixtures and will wirelessly transmit hotel guest water usage data to a central hotel accounting system.”
According to the grant, its goal will be to “assist hotel guests in modifying their behavior to help conserve water.”
One of the researchers working on the project explained his objective will be to “get hotel guests to reduce their water use by 10 percent or to reduce their showers by about one minute,” noting that the average hotel shower currently lasts about eight minutes.
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Beyond water waste in the shower, the project will also include pleas to reuse towels and other linens while staying in a hotel room instead of requesting they be laundered.
Rush Limbaugh noted on his syndicated radio show Tuesday that he believes it will be just a matter of time until the EPA attempts to force citizens to install such software in their own homes.
Limbaugh was hardly the only person outraged by the news. Twitter comments in response to a Fox News link included overwhelmingly negative reactions.
One user explained that a hotel is “the only place I enjoy a long hot shower especially since I’m paying enough for the room.”
Others cited this program as further evidence that the federal government needs to be pruned significantly.
This will not stop with the EPA monitoring showers in hotels.
Next it will be monitoring and controlling showers at your home.
Then it will be monitoring and controlling urinals and toilets.
People will end up trading unused "Flush Permits" like they do Carbon Credits.
They will demand you only use one sheet of toilet paper too. If thats the case ‘ll visit the office of the sponsoring senator or representative and deliver some free Starbucks coffee laced with exlax and wait in the john to film him using an entire roll and put it up on the Internet. O’Keefe will have nothing on me....:
Just HOW the HECK do they KNOW this?
They time the whores they use when they are on government field trips researching shower usage.
That’s charmin
But they can't (yet) control how many times I flush: three times for these new low-capacity toilets.
> 8 minute shower? Damn, I’d blow that average right out of the water. I count a hot steamy shower to be not only therapeutic, but a basic human right.
The EPA is out to deny me my civil rights!
Its about time to give them a taste of their own medicine...no lattes or frappacinos over 4 oz to conserve water, no computer usage between 5:00 p - 5:00 am to conserve energy, no cell phone data usage over 1G to conserve bandwidth. It would drive them out of their frickin’ minds..
Ahh. . makes sense. . .working “under cover(s)” as it were. . .
> That’s charmin
You ain’t see ‘nuttin yet. I can be quite creative when I’ve finally had it up to hear with these jacka$hes
Needs to be marked as candidate for post of the year.
Just sayin’.
The EPA is like a Plug in the Sewage Pipe of Life
““Most hotels do not monitor individual guest water usage and as a result, millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by hotel guests.””
If most hotels dont monitor individual guest water usage, then how do you know this to begin with?
Most hotels I’ve stayed at lately are using the Flushmate pneumatic flush tanks, which seem very effective. These use water pressure to compress air via a 2 area piston system.
I was watching CORVAIRWILD on youtube ,he’s a bit odd ,but when he stays at Motel/Hotels he gives a little review of the room and Motel/Hotels use the worst equipment THAT WASTE A TON OF WATER
NUKE THE EPA.
Sort of that, STATES, reject and nullify these unconstitutional federal agencies and acts.
Are you reading my mind? (what little there is of it left...)
IIRC, didn’t the CIA and British Intelligence have the capability to eavesdrop on ANY ground line or cell phone in the early 1980s? Certain key words that were monitored would trigger the recording of the conversation. I seem to recall a documentary mentioning this years ago. I believe that RAF Menwith Hill and CFS Leitrim (or, as some people in Ottawa called it, CFS Latrine) were two listening posts, as well as a US base or bases.
I hope there’s enough of us in a few states that can cause the state to stand up to these bullies. Enough already.
Funny how the libs always accuse us of being in their bedrooms, but now they want to monitor our showers.
When checking into a hotel room, I turn on the shower upon entry the first day, and will turn it off on the last day upon leaving. I don’t see how’z there is any more room for conservation beyond that.
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