So I was in Canadian Tire yesterday, walking around and I see this Water-pick shower head that caught my eye. It looked like it could have some pressure so I picked it up and a extension bar, as I'm 6'4" and I need a higher shower head. So anyway get home unpack it and start looking at the parts, and see the flow restricter in both the extension bar and new shower head are removable with little effort, so I removed them both. Well I hooked the thing up and HOLY CRAP!!!! I've never had pressure like this before!!!! I can only liken it to hurricane pressure, and I just thought i'd share.
Doesn't lots of pressure mean excessive use of water?
I could be wrong on this but I always presumed at the end of the day it was dependent on the pressure in your house, i.e from the mains.
e.g. I've just finished a double shower in our ensuite. Never going to function as a double shower at the same time (simply isn't enough pressure). Was never intended to. Basically a shower with 2 options. However if there was 2 high pressure heads then wouldn't that optimize the chances?
e.g. also. If you have one of them huge rain shower thingies. Aren't you just getting more/the same water at a lower pressure?
There's also the time factor. Personally I prefer a powerwash for a good quick scrub.
So anyway get home unpack it and start looking at the parts, and see the flow restricter in both the extension bar and new shower head are removable with little effort, so I removed them both.
The last owner of my house did that and it was a terrible idea. Wicked pressure yes, but the hot water tank was emptied in no time. I swapped in a restricted shower head ASAP.
I'd say it used about 3x as much water (seriously). Wasting water aside, unless you're in a place with unlimited hot water I wouldn't recommend this.
I guess you didn't choose the name "MoneyGuy" because you have a lot of it.
I have way more than I need, thank you, but that's not the reason for the name. I believe in being a good environmental steward. I save water, I recyle every piece of paper that comes into my house and office, etc. etc. I was staying in a hotel the other day and came back to my room and the maid was there. She was doing something in the bedroom and had the bathrub running full blast for no apparent reason. I was mighty pissed.
I guess you didn't choose the name "MoneyGuy" because you have a lot of it.
I fail to see how saving water has anything to do with the name MoneyGuy. If everyone did what he does, it would save countless Litres of water everyday, not for money, but for the sake of our world's sustainability.
I never used to do it either, but after coming to China and realizing that the majority of Chinese do it, it seems almost non-sensical to not do it. My wife even takes it steps further, using the water that drains out of the washing machine every time you do a load of laundry to wash the balcony, floor, etc. There is so many ways we waste water it's astounding! Sometimes I think my wife is crazy, but in reality if everyone did what she does the world would be far better off long term.
I fail to see how saving water has anything to do with the name MoneyGuy. If everyone did what he does, it would save countless Litres of water everyday, not for money, but for the sake of our world's sustainability.
I never used to do it either, but after coming to China and realizing that the majority of Chinese do it, it seems almost non-sensical to not do it. My wife even takes it steps further, using the water that drains out of the washing machine every time you do a load of laundry to wash the balcony, floor, etc. There is so many ways we waste water it's astounding! Sometimes I think my wife is crazy, but in reality if everyone did what she does the world would be far better off long term.
My wifes grandma puts buckets in the shower to collect the excess water and uses that to flush the toilet.
How dissapointing, I thought for sure when I saw Fotze post My wifes grandma... in this thread, that it would be about someone drinking her grandma's urine.
I have a question though. While I am not arguing against the fact that there must be environmental benefits to using less water. ie, less energy used to treat water, less water diverted from natural sources,etc.
Is there a benefit to the net amount of water that is available in an ecosystem by using less water. I would think that water used in a shower would eventually find its way back into the lakes and streams through drainage and condensation, etc. It is not like you are consuming the water and turning it into something else that is not water. It is still water when you're done with it.
I fail to see how saving water has anything to do with the name MoneyGuy. If everyone did what he does, it would save countless Litres of water everyday, not for money, but for the sake of our world's sustainability.
I never used to do it either, but after coming to China and realizing that the majority of Chinese do it, it seems almost non-sensical to not do it. My wife even takes it steps further, using the water that drains out of the washing machine every time you do a load of laundry to wash the balcony, floor, etc. There is so many ways we waste water it's astounding! Sometimes I think my wife is crazy, but in reality if everyone did what she does the world would be far better off long term.
Hmmm
But the water doesn't disappear. Once it goes down the drain it isn't like it can never be used again.
Conserving water saves the amount of work the treatment facilities need to do. If everyone conserves water, the water plants and waste treatment plants don't need to work as hard, which saves energy, capacity costs, etc.
I'm sure you know that, but you post just makes it sound like once someone wastes water, that water is gone forever. It isn't.
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But the water doesn't disappear. Once it goes down the drain it isn't like it can never be used again.
Conserving water saves the amount of work the treatment facilities need to do. If everyone conserves water, the water plants and waste treatment plants don't need to work as hard, which saves energy, capacity costs, etc.
I'm sure you know that, but you post just makes it sound like once someone wastes water, that water is gone forever. It isn't.
Sure I understand that, but the fact is the world's water usage outnumbers the world's water treatment capabilities. If it didn't, we'd all be going swimming in Lake Ontario (for example, but there are countless lakes and rivers damaged or destroyed from pollution), but from what I understand it's so polluted you can smell it half a mile away. So sure the water is not just vanishing but you're still adding to the problem.
Even it saving water's only upside was to save energy on the treatment plants, isn't that good enough reason? In reality however, it doesn't really work that way because whether you save water or not, the treatment facilities are still going to be working full throttle to clean up the mess we've made already.
Showering in a hurricane :D
