http://mygreenatl.com/2010/02/05/perdue-proposes-water-saving-plan-lite/ Atlanta's environmental news Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:44:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://mygreenatl.com/2010/02/05/perdue-proposes-water-saving-plan-lite/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Green Curmudgeon Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:18:59 +0000 http://mygreenatl.com/?p=1229#comment-271 Another weak effort by our do nothing Gov. In a quick review of the proposal I found a few more particularly weak items. Shower heads are only required to be 2.5 gallon per minute, which, while reasonably efficient, are no where near as good as many 1.5 and 1.6 gallon units available. Also, there is no restriction on the number of shower heads allowed in a single stall. You can have 50 of those 2.5 GPM heads in a single bathroom if you want. Also, Watersense has developed a method to pipe hot water in homes to reduce wasted water waiting for it to get hot - this is not easy but it is important and valuable and should be added to the bill. Another weak effort by our do nothing Gov. In a quick review of the proposal I found a few more particularly weak items. Shower heads are only required to be 2.5 gallon per minute, which, while reasonably efficient, are no where near as good as many 1.5 and 1.6 gallon units available. Also, there is no restriction on the number of shower heads allowed in a single stall. You can have 50 of those 2.5 GPM heads in a single bathroom if you want.
Also, Watersense has developed a method to pipe hot water in homes to reduce wasted water waiting for it to get hot – this is not easy but it is important and valuable and should be added to the bill.

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