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Still less water used thsn a small farm lol.
I think something like 97% of our fresh water supply goes into agriculture.
-blink-
This does not solve a problem for me.
We should have a water recommendation system in every home. Solar powered. A pump give you a 2hr shower of your life every day. Then that water passes through several filters until it ends up back in the Reservoir. So that way you don’t waste so much water daily.
You’d waste more water on those filters than you’d reclaim.
I just did a shower remodel and it’s extremely difficult to get the flow rates for these things. Even just with a normal shower head, plus rain head, and a single wand, I can empty the 50 gallon hot water tank in about 10 minutes. These crazy drowner showers practically require parallel tankless heaters to supply 10+ gpm.
They have a thing I think is called a water mixing valve. You crank your tank way up. The valve mixes cold and super hot water to what would be normal hot water. This makes the hot water tank last a lot longer. We have one, and both kids can take showers/baths at the same time. And I can shower after and still have hot water. The overall flow and pressure of course is still not enough to run more than two shower heads at the same time without noticing. But that’s a different issue.
I honestly had never considered this…
Does anybody make a good recirculation system? Basically take the guts of a jet tub and put the jets on the wall.
The noise from the pump alone… Great idea tho lol
Wouldn’t be able to hear the pump over the sound of water blasting my ear canals from three different angles
And yet no ass blaster nozzle 🤔🧐
Hey, did you know you can turn around? its like walking without going anywhere just rotating yourself.
Make sure you rotate around the vertical axis, and practice on soft ground before trying it in a wet hard surface like a shower.
Halp, I’m upside down, how do I stop this
Relax, are you familiar with imaginary numbers and their 3d extensions? you might have to read about quaternion rotations .
One part is always cold, then. The one advantage baths have over showers is that you can be warm all over. I don’t want a car wash shower but it would solve that.
if one side is cold and the other hot, you can spin really fast and average it out.
Viva la revolución
I’d die, I feel over stimulated just taking a normal shower, I think I could handle a multi headed shower for like 30 seconds.
WHARRGARBL
I’ve never found these more appealing than a good single adjustable angle wall mounted spout with decent pressure. For the life of me I don’t know why anyone would want a single ceiling mounted “rain” head. I think those are the worst.
Yes like being drowned. And I don’t want to get my hair wet every time I shower! Stayed w my brother, he had an overhead shower like that and I thought my hair would mildew, it was always wet.
Ugh yeah trendy hotels are into these rain water things and it’s just annoying. I’d be more into this pressure washer though.
As someone who rocked a rain head … yeah totally. I also still had a ‘normal’ shower head on an adjustable flow valve. lol
… though the pure rain head wouldn’t have been too terrible. My hair is like 90% of what takes direct flow to clean. Asscracks etc aren’t ‘that’ bad to wash via finding the right posture and waiting a few moments for enough water to find its target.
… I am fully willing to admit my opinion may change drastically in 30 years when even a leaned over posture becomes a PITA.
Here I am taking sailor showers with a hand wand; wet down, turn water off and soap up, rinse off. I might use 10L of water taking a shower. I have to haul my water in (cistern) and I can’t be arsed to do that more than once a year so I use it sparingly.
Maybe one day I’ll get a well drilled and then I’ll just leave it running 24/7.
how to get around low-flow shower head laws.
Sorry, what does that mean? I don’t speak Californian.
Just remove the extra washer piece from the shower head
I used to take 30 minute showers, then I removed the extra washer in the shower head and can take a 10 minute shower.
I think Kramer knows a guy.
to save water for everyone, avoid baths and take showers.
I’ll shower instead, but fuck anyone that wants me to save water for them
I’m a lot more worried about agriculture and golf course water usage (and runoff) than I am the shower gallons.
My comment was intended as a joke that is relevant to the image posted.
Would you like to spread other true but unrelated propaganda, like meat farms or other agricultural efforts taking up water?
Revolt
It’s good training for when you participate in a riot caused by a drinking water shortage.
I’m pretty sure these recirculate water when they’re operated like this. Otherwise it’s like a normal shower head.
Put it on full blast and full cold so can really simulate that feeling
I’m constantly befuddled by the American desire to avoid handheld shower heads. How do you wash your armpits and asshole? Answer? You really don’t, you’re nose blind. I can still smell you, because I pressure wash mine with enough force to cleave marble.
I have one of these and never use it, just assumed it was there to help those with vaginas get off
Pretty good for every crevice. Except toes, oddly enough.
I have myself long wondered how those ceiling mounted showers are really supposed to be used, but just a few days ago an explanation was finally posted here: https://feddit.org/post/30725202
That makes me so deeply uncomfortable. My word
You can’t imagine getting an area clean without a detachable head? We use soap and scrub while under the shower head.
*sniff*
Now it just seems like projection
The fact that OP thinks not using a detachable shower head doesn’t clean anything means he just sprays his pits and ass and doesn’t scrub.
didn’t you read what he wrote? he thinks spraying an area down is all you need.
this dude is smelling his own ass and pits wherever he goes and blaming it on others.
*sniff*
What a weird ass hill to die on
*clean ass
I get that you’re doing a bit with the sniff thing, but I genuinely don’t understand how armpits benefit from a handheld sprayer. You can still get your pit pretty close to a mounted one, and it doesn’t take that much pressure to wash off soap.
It just makes things far easier, faster, and more complete, being able to direct the stream at your soapy bits. Shorter distance means higher pressure which means shorter, more thorough showers.
…You can’t raise your arms or bend over slightly? Even a garbage motel shower can hit all my bits. Plus we have soap and washcloths here, or loofahs or those plastic poof things if that’s more your style. If you’re relying on water pressure rather than the surfactant properties of soap I suggest you get off your hygienic high-horse.
Naturally I use soap. That it needs to be stated explicitly, well… *sniff*
This is an oddly specific misconception. Where do you get that idea? It’s fairly standard here for showers to have either a detachable head or separate wand. Cheap hotels and rentals might have shitty showerheads, but that’s definitely not specific to the US.
The current style trend is one that tends toward installing wall and ceiling shower heads in the US. I confirmed it with my friend who is involved with design and distribution of bathrooms fixtures. Tubs are out, tile showers with fixed soft water heads are in.
I wouldn’t be able to tell you about many other countries without offering information about myself that I’m not interested in spreading, but some countries are nearly 100% handheld. The gap between trending away from and near-ubiquity is pretty visible
The first handheld, detachable shower head was patented in the United States in 1889 by inventor Lucian L. Waterman.
Nominative determinism
You’d think they’d be ubiquitous by now, given that. Weird choice to invent something and trend away from it.
Soap and washcloth
I find this interesting because everyone I know with the ability to change it has those. I would too if my apartment let me change the damn shower head.
Cuz like… If you ended up in a house with this monstrosity, it looks like you’d have to remodel the entire shower since it doesn’t have normal shower heads.
I always change my apartment shower head when I move in to a nice handheld one and when I move out I put the shitty renters one back on. The landlord doesn’t need to know any different.
Nah, just replace one of the heads. At least based on my experience.
My house came with a shower that’s not the same as this, but similarly themed. There is one showerhead where you’d expect one in a standard shower, then four on the front wall. It’s not a surrounding experience like in the post but, again, a similar theme.
When I bought the house it just had a fixed outlet for each one. I share the apparently common opinion that that’s unacceptable - if you are able you should give yourself a handheld shower head. Admittedly the handle that controls the four wall heads I mentioned hasn’t been connected at least since I bought the place, but the shower head I replaced just required unscrewing the old one and putting a new one in.
The control system in the one in the photo looks to be a bit more … Digital, but at least the pipe hookups are probably separated.
I would too if my apartment let me change the damn shower head.
Do it anyway and keep the apt head in a baggie somewhere. That’s what I did for like 5 yrs when I lived in an apartment because those heads are fucking trash
I would never advise you to go against your tenant contract. That would be wrong and a trespass against your landlord. I would be willing to tell you that mine took about 20 minutes to install and uninstall, most of which was spent getting upset at myself for getting it wet while I still needed to screw some bits in.
But I’ve mostly seen people looking for the water wall because it seems “luxurious.” It’s immensely stupid, style over substance.
do… you not know how a regular showerhead works? you need to directly spray your asshole? you don’t know how to scrub your body properly?
the armpits is also crazy lol.
*sniff*
You don’t scrub?
I do
We got one of these a few years ago and boy, is it a game changer. Highly recommend to anyone.
Right? And they’re cheap as hell. A $30 head with like 45 settings will last 10 years and save enough water to visibly cut your water usage or your massage budget or your dildo needs.
Honestly, give me a pressure washer with the maximum pressure human skin can handle.
