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.
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17 comments:
LMAO. Go pound sand. Ridiculous EPA.
Did anyone among us not know that our ridiculously lavish lifestyle wouldn't eventually come back to haunt us? Natural resources are exhaustible.Did we take it all for granted so much that we thought it would just go on forever? My goodness we are a stupid species,myself included.
People who stay in hotels expect a bit of luxury. A long shower is one of those.
Next thing they will do is limit your time on the toilet. They will have a timer on the toilet seat and if you sit for more than 2 minutes the toilet paper dispenser lock up. These people need something to do.
10:05 Speak for yourself
10:22 Agreed
If they are going to prorate the amount of water you use then the cost of the room should be prorated based on how much time you are physically in the room.
Ugh you folks really don't understand the greater context that is likely in play.
Before the EPA can issue new regs, they need to know what the reality on the ground is. That way their regs don't over-regulate too much. Would you rather the EPA issue regs without studying what is currently occurring in reality? No of course not!
The phrase 'too much' is of course a flexible and contentious topic, but this study is not.
This goes way beyond hotel and motel issues.If everyone could exercise caution over their daily use of all resources our children might just possibly have enough to get by with.If not,shortfalls are unavoidable.
The next thing you know, the EPA will want to measure everyone's turds to see if some are too big to go through the sewer system.
I really believe people at the EPA, the DOJ, and IRS are using some seriously dangerous drugs to come up with some of this stuff they think up. Oh, I forgot, the president brews beer in the White House! Sorry.
going to charge you to take a dump.
i usually turn on every faucet, every light, and ac full blast with the windows open. just want to get my money's worth.
This is stupid. The water you use in a shower or bath eventually ends up back where it started from.
Let me guess. All hotels will have to comply,except the five star luxury where the elites stay.
Another 'really good' idea would be mandatory low-flush toilets like we have now.You know,the ones you have to flush two or three times....and waste twice as much water as the old ones.
Another really good idea would be to add ethanol to gasoline. sarc/off
Ha ha ha ..these comments are making me laugh !! Thanks !!
I've stayed in a few Places where it seemed they already restricted water use.
Water! The only actual renewable resource in nature! Sure there is a finite amount but it is 100% renewable unlike other resources. It can be treated and filtered back into 100% water! The only issue is the cost for renewing it, nobody wants to pay the price it takes to take shower 'run off' and turn into potable water again!
All shower run off (for that matter toilet flush water also) eventually becomes potable water again with no extra treatment than currently being used.
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