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How To Save Water By Taking a Shorter Shower

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japanesebaby

Quote from: lostflower4 on March 11, 2010, 03:26:29
Quote from: dsanchez on March 10, 2010, 16:12:56
Women don't understand passion for soccer :roll:

Las Mujeres nunca entenderan el futbol
Interesting take there, considering what they say:

"Football (soccer) players are the third sex. They're not women, but they're not quite men either."


:smth043


by the way shouldn't the video rather be called: "men don't care about hygiene (unfortunately)".
:? :lol:




:oops:
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lostflower4

Quote from: dsanchez on March 11, 2010, 22:01:37
How To Save Water By Taking a Shorter Shower

Who comes up with this "advice"???  :oops:

I never understood how "low flow" shower heads save water, considering the lousy stream you get from them. It just makes it take FOREVER to get a decent rinse from them. Unfortunately, they're pretty much mandatory here in the U.S. now and you have to be rather clever to find a workaround.  :roll:

And what's with the bucket for house plants?  My water gets hot in a split second (certainly quick enough to scald me if I'm not careful).

As for two people showering at the same time... Ok, maybe it's "fun" for certain occasions, but how on earth could that be any more efficient when you're using some crappy lo-flo shower head that can barely keep up with one person?  

Anyway, if you REALLY want to save water, just don't bathe at all. Quite a few people in history have gone this route, with King Louis XIV of France possibly being the most famous:

http://ty.rannosaur.us/15-famously-filthy-people-from-the-pages-of-history


During the 72 year reign of Louis, France established an absolute monarchy, Versailles was built, and The Sun King waged war with everyone. Possibly hydrophobic, he refused to bathe unless his doctors forced him to and took two, possibly three, baths his entire life. He preferred to be dusted with scented powder and washed his face with a rag soaked in alcohol. Louis refused surgery on a gangrenous foot, leading to his death, and would lose chunks of it around Versailles.


Problem solved!  :-D

japanesebaby

well, some of those advice might be ok depending on where you live/what kind of shower you have etc.
but some of them - i mean, "shower with a friend"? lol. what kid of video is that supposed to be actually?

of course the truth is that we should all learn to save water, just like all other natural resources too.
but i think the much bigger issues are caused by the way how big industries keep wasting and polluting water resources, often without any penalties at all. :? for instance textile industries consume horrible amounts of water:

http://wateruseitwisely.com/blog/miscellaneous/it-takes-1800-gallons-of-water-to-make-one-pair-of-jeans

1,800 gallons (about 6800 liters) water for one pair of jeans  :eek: :? - well, that's a lot of showers.

Quote from: lostflower4 on March 14, 2010, 09:04:01
Anyway, if you REALLY want to save water, just don't bathe at all. Quite a few people in history have gone this route, with King Louis XIV of France possibly being the most famous:

http://ty.rannosaur.us/15-famously-filthy-people-from-the-pages-of-history


During the 72 year reign of Louis, France established an absolute monarchy, Versailles was built, and The Sun King waged war with everyone. Possibly hydrophobic, he refused to bathe unless his doctors forced him to and took two, possibly three, baths his entire life. He preferred to be dusted with scented powder and washed his face with a rag soaked in alcohol. Louis refused surgery on a gangrenous foot, leading to his death, and would lose chunks of it around Versailles.


Problem solved!  :-D

Yeah. :eek: I guess that's how they thought of blue cheese and all those other smelly types? :smth100
By the way I just learnt that when the first portuguese arrived in Japan in the 17th century as the first Europeans ever, one of the things they found worth enough to tell about when they got back home was that the japanese usually bathed ever day - whereas the Europeans themselves went on for months and months without a bath.
No wonder that the japanese used to called the portuguese "southern barbarians".
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dsanchez

Quote from: lostflower4 on March 14, 2010, 09:04:01
Anyway, if you REALLY want to save water, just don't bathe at all. Quite a few people in history have gone this route, with King Louis XIV of France possibly being the most famous:

well, actually the video recommends this somehow, altought not in an extreme way. They say is not necesary to take a shower everyday ;)
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dsanchez

Quote from: japanesebaby on March 14, 2010, 20:32:43
of course the truth is that we should all learn to save water, just like all other natural resources too.

this is an interesting document about

http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/trans0309walkthisway.html

shows how we waste water (directly or indirectly)
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