If you thought environmentalists in our country were beginning to reach, this commercial comes from Brazil, where a campaign is under way to encourage Brazilians to “pee in the shower” as opposed to the toilet, saying such behavior would save thousands of gallons of water. The happiest man in the world is now Greg Gutfeld, who recently said he usually has to pay lots of money to get people to pee in his shower.
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I just saw that Red Eye..omg that is so gross!
It’s Mear in la ducha…
Yup, somewhere Costanza’s smiling.
If you want to carry this a step further, install a garbage disposal in the shower drain, ala Kramer, and prepare your dinner in the shower and finish it all off with a “numero dos”!
Hell, I’ll go down to the public pool and cut down on my water bill altogether.
Just watch out for the Baby Ruth Bars, Matt!
If you want to see an environmentalist get all like the femmebots when Austin does his dance in the Union Jack skivvies;
Ask him or her to name an activity we humans engage in that removes water from the environment?
He or she will stare at you, blankly; not understanding.
You explain: You, Mr. or Ms. Environmentalist are concerned about water conservation. It seems very important to you and I want to share your concern so I can help you. What is it we are doing that is destroying water?
The answer: Nothing. Water is reclaimed. All of it. A farmer irrigates a field in Ohio to grow a cucumber that I buy at my local Piggly Wiggly. I eat that cucumber (almost all water), and every drop of that water comes out of my body and ends up back in the environment, most likely in a river. Every single drop.
Water conservation is a local problem. If your region doesn’t have enough fresh water to meet the demands of the local environment, your region has a problem. They can buy water from somewhere else, charge more money for the water they have, or cajole people to use less, but it’s a local problem. Unless you have a big electrolysis lab in your kitchen, and you’re breaking up gallons of water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen and releasing those molecules into the atmosphere under the cover of darkness you are not doing anything to alter the water you use. Flush the toilet once a day, or a thousand times a day. It all ends up back in the ecosystem.
There are some chemical reactions that consume water, but I can’t remember any of them that are used on an industrial scale. But on the whole, you are correct, we use water as a solvent, and it’s usually what the water carries that’s important.
Which reminds me of the dirt worshipper who was going on about liquid vs. powdered soap, with the criticism that the liquid was mostly water. I semi-innocently asked, “What liquid isn’t?” All I got in return was sputtering about how I “didn’t get it”.
“What liquid isn’t?” That’s a riot, Raoul!
Raoul,
I know there are some reactions that “destroy” water, that’s why I threw electrolysis in there, but the point is that 99.999999999999999% of the time the folks complaining about water usage and begging us to conserve have never thought about what happens to the water when it goes into the pipes in their home. In other words, they are idiots.
If it would make the enviro-nuts happy I will happily go pee in their shower. Wait a minute…do they shower?
I don’t see what the big deal is, every drain in a home plumbing system (assuming it’s not plumbed with a gray water recovery system) ends up in the same place, not to mention the fact that pee is sterile. If it saves 1.6 gallons every time, that adds up to real savings over the course of a year.
jeff,
It’s no big deal, and if you want to save the money on your water bill and don’t mind standing in your own piss, more power to you. It’s your choice. I just think it’s nutty that people act like we have a limited supply of water and if we don’t conserve our great grandchildren will have to brew their tea in sulfuric acid.
I don’t know about your house but at mine the shower drains carry away water (and pee) before it pools. As for limited supply of water, we have never had more or less as the amount of freshwater available to humans is constant and the overwhelming majority, say 90%, is locked up in glaciers.
The problem isn’t running out, it’s getting it to where the growing population is and doing it cost effectively. In California we could easily deliver 200 gallons per person per day but the cost would be so prohibitive that only the very wealthy could afford any water at all. Water systems are not dominated by variable expenses that can be passed on to big consumers exclusively, the major cost is infrastructure that hits every consumer irrespective of how much they consume. You see this in action when conservation is successful and water districts raise their rates because of declining revenues. The other big issue with water in CA is a states rights one with the Federal government in DC arbitrarily determining how much water is diverted for agriculture and people… but that’s beyond the pissing in the shower meme.
While we agree that individual choice is a conservative value, conservation and better stewardship of our natural resources should be as well. If small acts like pissing in the shower forestall more costly initiatives later, then I’m all for it.
Fortunately, we here at Exurbanleague have come up with waste disposal solution that uses no water whatsoever! Beat THAT, Brazil!
http://exurbanleague.com/2009/08/05/yellow-and-green.aspx
EK-I liked Deborah’s response on your site. Priceless!
jeff,
Did you read my comment?
I don’t understand why you are disagreeing with me since we seem to be saying the same thing. My comments are not aimed at folks like you, who understand the nature of water. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people screaming about conservation do not understand there is nothing being destroyed, or removed.
Southern California has a huge fresh water problem, as you state. The area is already developed way beyond what a desert climate can support with current technology. California has quite a challenge ahead and extremely high water costs are almost certainly in your future.
I didn’t read that comment, thanks for highlighting it. I think we are agreeing on general principle but I do wish to add that my environmental impulse is that of conversation without great inconvenience. Anything that makes better use of our natural resources is a good thing providing it doesn’t impose great hassle on the individual… low flow toilets, great, waterless toilets not so much so.
jeff,
I’m personally a very tiny footprint guy. I take public transportation and ride my bike whenever possible. I’m the only guy I know in my tax bracket riding my bike to work in my part of the world. I turn the water off while I’m brushing my teeth, and turn it back on when it’s time to rinse. When I shave I run hot water to get my face wet and lather up the shaving cream (I make my own with a badger bristle brush), then turn it to cold to rinse my razor as I shave, so as to cut down on the gas required to heat the water. Our friends can always tell when my wife is not home, but I am, because there is only one light on in the entire house, in whatever room I’m using. I recycle, etc…
However, I do those things because I choose to do those things. I don’t care what my neighbor is doing. If he’s got a 100 gallon hot water heater connected directly to his toilet and he flushes to the tempo of Handel’s “Harmonious Blacksmith” as he pees, more power to him. That’s not how I want to live my life, but if he wants to, go for it. Municipalities need to charge folks the cost of what their water and rubbish removal use is and allow people to make up their own minds on how tiny they want their footprint, and how much they want to pay for convenience.
I guess you could say my environmental impulse is that of conservation even when it is an inconvenience, but that’s a personal choice. We should all be free to make our own decisions on this matter, and we should all bear the personal responsibility for the costs of our decisions.
LOL, I think we are cut from the same cloth. BTW, I use a badger brush as well and research has demonstrated that cold water on a razor blade results in a better shave than warm water!
jeff, that’s the problem with too many environmentalists; they spend more time worrying what others are doing than managing their own lives. Few people have done more for conservation in this country than Teddy Roosevelt and that guy killed at least one of just about every species of life known to man in his day. I’m not a hunter or angler, but I still recognize that those folks do tremendous work for conservation. When “environmentalists” embrace sportsmen I’ll start to believe they truly care about the environment.
Thanks for the tip on the cold water and razor blades. I guess I can stop storing them in the pyramid I bought from RonCo.
That caused me to laugh out loud and prompted my children to ask why. My oldest thinks you’re a genius. So now you’ve got a 12 yo fan.
Thanks. I’m flattered, but pretty much any reference to toilets is going to get a laugh out of a 12 year old boy. My 12 year old son thinks Steven Crowder is a genius.
“If he’s got a 100 gallon hot water heater connected directly to his toilet and he flushes to the tempo of Handel’s “Harmonious Blacksmith” as he pees, more power to him.”
My toilet flush is set to Night on Bald Mountain, and the bidet, to Ave Maria.