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EPA Wants to Monitor How Long Hotel Guests Spend in the Shower
2015 Mar 17, 8:28am 2,686 views 10 comments
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Shaman
2015 Mar 17, 8:51am
So what's their goal? Water conservation or energy conservation? In drought affected areas the first makes sense. Hotels may install these devices to charge extra for excessive water use. But if it's to strongarm Americans into using less energy, the EPA is pissing into the wind. That will blow back in their faces, since energy use is NOT their purview, and claiming "greenhouse gas" production for energy makes it their business is a clear overreach. THIS is why the whole global warming business is not a good thing to entrust to a government bureaucracy. There's never going to be an end to the affairs they'll poke their noses into.
Dan8267
2015 Mar 17, 8:59am
EPA Wants to Monitor How Long Hotel Guests Spend in the Shower
Don't they know that's the NSA's job?
Dan8267
2015 Mar 17, 9:01am
The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to “modify their behavior.â€
Well, at least like the NSA, their wasting money. A water meter costs $50 online, not $15,000. Buying in bulk lessens the cost.
zzyzzx
2015 Mar 17, 9:29am
So what's their goal?
To make everyone use less water, even people in places where it rains ever other day.
FortWayne
2015 Mar 17, 9:59am
Will the system automatically cut off hot water after 5 minutes and just start spewing ice cubes at the offender? I know our government and their priorities.
Can't get economy fixed, or foster a system that does not revolve around monopolies, but they can sure beat you down on your water usage.
FortWayne
2015 Mar 17, 10:01am
To make everyone use less water, even people in places where it rains ever other day.
I'm pretty sure the goal is to make all our lives more miserable in some way or another.
zzyzzx
2015 Mar 17, 10:02am
Will the system automatically cut off hot water after 5 minutes and just start spewing ice cubes at the offender?
I'd be OK with that, as long as it's only for drought stricken pl;aces like CA. What I really hate is that fact that crappy (pun intended) low flow toilets are mandated nationwide, even places where there is plenty of rain.
So what's their goal?
To make everyone use less water, even people in places where it rains ever other day.
They won't be happy until the populace is reduced to taking whore baths, scrubbing their flaccid nether regions with a damp wash cloth (preferably in a dark color).
If they want to know what im doing in the shower, theyre free to log into chaturbate.com and pay me my tokens, just like everyone else.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-wants-to-monitor-how-long-hotel-guests-spend-in-the-shower/
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower.
The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to “modify their behavior.”
“Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S. and around the world,” an EPA grant to the University of Tulsa reads. “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.”
“The proposed work aims to develop a novel low cost wireless device for monitoring water use from hotel guest room showers,” it said. “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.”
The funding is going toward creating a prototype and market analysis for the device. The goal of the project is to change the behavior of Americans when they stay at hotels.
“This technology will provide hotel guests with the ability to monitor their daily water online or using a smartphone app and will assist hotel guest in modifying their behavior to help conserve water,” the grant said.
The project was filed under “Water conservation,” “Urban water planning,” and “Sustainable water management.”
The EPA also has a WaterSense program that challenges hotels to track their water use and upgrade their restrooms with low-flow toilets and showerheads.
The program also encourages “linen and towel reuse programs” in guest rooms.
The EPA is concerned that the average shower, which lasts just eight minutes, uses 18 gallons of water, and has asked Americans to reduce their shower length by at least one minute.
Tyler W. Johannes, Ph.D., an associate professor in the University of Tulsa's School of Chemical Engineering who is working on the project, told the Washington Free Beacon that the researchers hope to see the technology “adopted by all major hotels and used across the country.”
He said the device seeks to get hotel guests to limit their showers to seven minutes as a start.
Johannes and his team assumed the average hotel shower lasts 8.2 minutes, using 17.2 gallons of water per guest per shower.
“Initially our device/app seeks to get hotel guests to reduce their water use by 10 percent or to reduce their showers by about one minute,” he said.
Johannes provided a link to Home Water Works, which recommends taking a five minute shower to reduce water use.
The website, which is a project of the Alliance for Water Efficiency, also suggests watering plants with discarded cold water from showers that take a long time to heat up, and taking “navy showers.”
“The method requires three steps: 1) turn on water to rinse body and hair; 2) turn off water while shampooing hair and washing body with soap and washcloth; 3) resume water flow and rinse off all shampoo and soap,” the group said. “Using this technique, the total duration of water flow can easily be reduced to 5 minutes or less.”
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