A fight to waste water?

In a new article on Yahoo!® Finance from July 23rd, some shower head manufacturers are actually fighting to be able to sell water wasting devices.

I understand that nobody really wants to give up luxury when it comes to bathing; using a 1.0 GPM (gallon per minute) shower head isn’t a great experience, but 12 GPM?  Really?  When I lived in Australia I had friends that only bathed every other day, or had to share bath water among family members, because their water was so limited.

They also talk about the cost of some of these water hog shower heads being in the thousands of dollars!  Why would you spend that much for a piece of brass with holes in it?  You can get an Oxygenics® Evolution, multi-function, hand held shower head with patented pressure increasing technology for less than $60.

Cash you don't need to spend for a great shower

I have an Oxygenics® Storm rain style shower head in my home; it puts out roughly 1.8 GPM at my 57 PSI (pounds per square inch) water pressure.  With that 1.8 GPM I get plenty clean, plenty fast, and it’s an enjoyable shower.

Oxygenics® Storm

Not only is the 12 GPM head using 6 times as much water, it’s 6 times as much hot water, meaning there was 6 times more electricity or gas used in the heating process, and that’s 6 times more water going to the local water treatment plant, which uses electricity to run all of it’s processes, and the list of addition resources and expenses just keeps building.  There’s a knock on effect that people just don’t think about.  You know a butterfly in Africa causes a typhoon in Japan kind of thing; only this scenario is real, and can be tracked and measured.

Now I’m not a big tree hugger, save the whales, global warming fanatic, but shouldn’t we all make an effort not to waste our natural resources?  Especially when you can get a luxurious, enjoyable, spa like experience at less than 2 GPM, and for less than $60, with an Oxygenics® head?  Makes sense to me.