brain drain
31 January, 2006
Australia has a serious water shortage problem.
Seriously though, a 4 minute shower? I tried it this morning, and I made it, but it worries me. Australia is going to become a cultural wasteland if everybody has 4 minute showers. You have your best ideas in the shower, and four frantic minutes is not going to put you in the relaxed frame of mind that you need to have your best ideas. If everyone in the country has 4 minute showers, no one is going to come up with that brilliant idea for solving the country’s water woes.
Given that sydney water delivers 1.7 billion litres of water to houses and businesses each day http://www.sydneywater.com.au/OurSystemsandOperations/
And 9.3% of it is lost in leaks
http://www.sydneywater.com.au/Publications/_download.cfm?DownloadFile=Factsheets/SavingWaterLeakageReport.pdf
You have to wonder if a 4 minute shower is really going to help!
Oh man, that cannot be good for anything. I use my shower to wake up and 20 minutes is barely enough. I guess I could use 2 minutes of it on full cold…. brrrrrr…. I don’t think so!
[...] While it could be argued that limiting showers to four minutes might be the fall of Western Civilisation, The four-minute shower timer is a relatively cheap gadget that can be ordered online and installed inside your shower recess (unfortunately it’s no longer available in kit form). It’s a patented device, otherwise I would challenge ReadyMade readers to construct one of these beauties from scratch. [...]