Posted on 03/22/2015 7:00:24 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If you like your shower, you probably can’t keep it once the Obama administration bureaucrats are done.
Nobody can altogether escape regulations, not even when bathing in the altogether. The Environmental Protection Agency denies wanting to compel us to shorten our showers, but that’s like President Obama denying you will lose your current doctor under Obamacare.
EPA is funding research to create hotel guest monitoring systems so the front desk can track your shower time and water usage. It’s the scariest thing since Hitchcock staged the deadly shower scene in “Psycho.”
The next step could be a water-use surcharge on your room bill. Then coin-operated systems, probably locating the slot across the room and making you walk to it, dripping everywhere. Then we may see shower-snooper systems required in every home. It’s part of the EPA’s “War on Women and Men,” launched when Congress mandated low-flow showerheads back in 1992 with George H.W. Bush’s approval.
EPA officials sent Americans a message last year when they approved funding to design the new CIA (Cleanliness Inspection Agency) to spy on us in the shower. As federal grants go, it’s tiny: $15,000 to the University of Tulsa. But that’s only for Phase 1 of a project “to build and test a working prototype and to conduct a preliminary market analysis.”
What problem do they hope to solve? The grant papers state: “Millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by hotel guests. The proposed work aims to develop a novel low-cost wireless device for monitoring water use from hotel guest room showers. This device 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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Enviro-Steroidal Nanny State PING!
ALMONDS....require a huge amount of water...
The water we use to Grow HAY..to EXPORT....exceeds any possible amount of so called waste
I MOVE WE EXPORT THE EPA!!
If I want take HOLLYWOOD SHOWER, it’s my business. The EPA Can Go Get Lost!
Call your state reps. Tell them you will not comply. We no longer have laws in America.
It’s back to those Micro Mist Shower heads again is it ?
My state reps are by and large all socialists!!
We are now being governed by federal departments.
The EPA needs to put toilet paper useage monitors in the White Mosque and instantaneously post the data to the transparent web.
This same agency banned over-the-counter asthma inhalers.
The EPA needs to be banned and all their employees banned from all forms of gov’t employment............... Forever.
“They can take my shower when they pry it out of my cold dead hands.” (Or something like that).
Who is to define waste? If it’s me, the EPA is LONG GONE.
“Millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by hotel guests.”
It would seem to me that the potable water could just be carried in by the guests easy enough.
All this is arguably required by laws Congress passed in the 1960s.
As previously noted, I learned about a water cycle in school back in the day. There is no reason to believe that the Water Cycle is not still operative. There are now more rats to screw stuff up wrt the Erf though.
I note that the “erf” has not “lost” and notabe amount of water....in years
I guess they think if they can make us smell like filthy hippies, we’ll all become hippy socialists. Boy, do they have a thing or two to learn about logic.
Defund it!! Ohh I forgot— no guts.
I had one of those low-flo shower heads for years. Hated it. Then a wise FReeper posted what to remove to make it high-flo. I did it and what a difference! I took my first high power shower and thought somewhere an EPA fascist was crying onto their desk blotter.
Start carrying a sheet of aluminum foil with your luggage. Wrap the foil around the water flow gadget. Prevent it from calling home.
The foil is reusable. The environuts will be so proud of you.
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