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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

That's a lovely image.

Thanks for sharing.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

Really? I doubt that you drink your own piss, somehow.

Not immediately, but the water you drank this morning, and showered in, was probably dinosaur pee, 60 million years ago. Water is very old. It just keeps cycling through the system.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Its not expensive, its commonplace, and nature recycles water abundantly to begin with. Water is recycled in the United States at treatment plants as well. I live out of town and mine goes into a septic system and helps water my pasture, which is as cheap as recycling gets.

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

Water is totally recyclable.

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ORIGINAL: DarlingSavage

Water is quickly becoming a scarce resource and shouldn't be wasted.  If use isn't regulated, you can count on it becoming more scarce. 

About 1% of ALL the water on Earth is fit and available for the consumption of humans and other organisms.  There are well over 6 billion people in the world and that number is rising every second.  Abuse of natural resources is not a topic that should be taken lightly.

...and is extremely expensive to do so. For that matter, one could say with all of the oceans we have no shortage at all.

The water in question is potable water not including any that goes into the ground or need be or reclaimed which is of course...more accurate.

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

And getting dumber by the week:


Crackdown on ultra-luxurious showerheads


Gene Goforth sells showerheads—big ones, like the Raindance Imperial 600 AIR. Selling for as much as $5,457, it has a 24-inch spray face, 358 no-clog channels and a triple-massage option. "You can just stand under it, and it helps your psyche," says Mr. Goforth, who has one in his home.

Now, Mr. Goforth is in a lather over the federal government's tough new line on water-hogging showerheads, part of a new effort to enforce energy- and water-use regulations. "Leave my shower alone," Mr. Goforth recently wrote in a letter to the Department of Energy.
Regulators are going after some of the luxury shower fixtures that took off in the housing boom. Many have multiple nozzles, cost thousands of dollars and emit as many as 12 gallons of water a minute.

In May, the DOE stunned the plumbing-products industry when it said it would adopt a strict definition of the term "showerhead" in enforcing standards that have been on the books—but largely unenforced—for nearly 20 years.

Industry response has been fast and furious. "It was not the legislative intent of Congress to authorize DOE to regulate the bathing habits of Americans," wrote Frederick Desborough, vice president of California Faucets, a Huntington Beach, Calif., manufacturer, in a letter to the DOE in June.

The showdown is a challenge to President Barack Obama and his energy secretary, Steven Chu, as they try to cajole—or compel—Americans to use water and energy more efficiently.

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Using water for crops is not recycling. If it was then where is the 4 trillion gals. gone from the original 6 trillion in our Ogallala aquifer ? Why is that now being rationed ? Is that water here ?

Yes, it's either consumed in photosynthesis or it is vapor, i.e....no longer potable water.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
These sweeping federal laws are based on the false premise that once water is consumed its gone forever.

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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

I don't think Australia where Kerry's yacht was built has the same govt. restrictions.

I don't know about government restrictions but Australia definitely conserves water. In the more inland areas during the summer it's sort of rationed (I think it's just really expensive if you go over a certain number of gallons) and I haven't seen a toilet here that didn't have 2 flush options - one full flush and one using a lot less water.

I've never gone shopping for showerheads here so idk about that.

Used to be flush commodes had a capacity of 3.0 gallons per flush in the States but they are now mandated at 1.5 gal I think. But the paper has gotten thicker. Now it is necessary often to flush twice. Kinda ironic.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

That's exactly what this law is going after, Need. They want to rewrite the definitions and call your described system a single "showerhead."

If the OP is thinking that fucking with one of the great simple pleasures of life, a long hot shower, is only going to bother conservatives, he might need to get out a bit more.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
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, but its not a jurisdiction of the federal government, its too much control at that level. It infringes on everyone elses liberty for the president to tell me what kind of shower head I may or may not install because of your local problem.

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi

Or cross the border into Canada and buy your toilet there.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

pick me up some good cubans if you go after the hydrozolized crapper, will ya bud?