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A Simple Step You Can Take: Install a Low Flow Shower Head
21st-century-citizen.com — If you ’re like most Americans, you take a shower every day. In terms of Carbon savings, a single low-flow shower head could save over 350 pounds of carbon from entering the atmosphere. Moreover, mine took only 5 minutes to install and saves me money as well. All in all, a simple step that saves money and reduces the energy my family uses.
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- socialpyramid, on 10/10/2007, -17/+6Great piece! These things work great, so don't get any ideas of sub-par showers.
- kbedell, on 10/10/2007, -10/+2I agree - the showers are fine. There's virtually no difference.
- JerodSlay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7We have a tank less water heater (supposed to be all green and crap) that uses gas. When water flows, it spins a thing that turns on the gas valve to heat the water, however it has to flow at a minimum rate or else it turns off. My current head is so low flow that I have to turn on the sink while I shower in order to have the water heated. These flow below the minimum rate of our water heater, so if we installed these, we would have cold showers... Tanked water heaters aren't all bad if you insulate them.
- sdrawkcaB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I had to get rid of my low-flow showerhead. they're absolutely terrible. I used up MORE water because my showers were longer as a result of finding it harder to feel clean. A regular showerhead I'll have a
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I don't know what planet you folks are from, but I can certainly tell the difference between a low-flow and regular-flow shower head. The former causes me to stay in the shower longer to get clean and rinse away the shampoo and soap.
- sdrawkcaB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4[digg lost half my comment? This is what I had in there before]
... less than 5 minute shower, and with my old low-flow showerhead I had to stay in there at least 20 minutes, often up to a half hour! I save more water with a regular shower head, and feel way better. - TheWestExit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I've done the exact opposite. I've removed the restrictor in a normal shower head. The waters goes faster and as a result I spend less time in the shower because I don't have to scrub as much to achieve the same effect. I break almost even using the same amount of gallons as I did before, just more Gallons/Minute.
- kbedell, on 10/10/2007, -13/+2I just put one in -- I works great and didn't cost much. I used a pair of pliers as the only tool I needed. (I detail this a bit more in the post). It rocks!
- greenspade, on 10/10/2007, -14/+7I just installed that very one yesterday!
- kbedell, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2Cool - I installed mine over last weekend.
- androo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+17someone make sure Kramer gets the memo
- statix, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1How does this exactly work? I understand that the pressure has to be significantly lower, eliminating the use of those massage featured ones.
- Glugory, on 10/10/2007, -2/+26I saw that episode of Seinfeld. Low flow is the devil!
- Quaterni0n, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Devil indeed! I replaced mine before and every shower head out there comes with a low flow filter (limiter) pre-installed. Do your hair a favor and take that sucker out.
I should write and submit a "How to get real water pressure out of your crappy low flow shower head."
I bet it would get more diggs than this article.- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'd digg it.
My last shower head purchase was based (partially) on how easy it was to remove the limiter. - computergod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yeah, I hate low flow heads. It seems you have to buy the ncer ones to get high flow though, the $70 ones.
- Quaterni0n, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Nah! I have a $10 mounted/hand-held shower head with a hose and it has great pressure with the limiter removed. Those cheap shower heads are all plastic and the part that screws onto the water pipe keeps cracking every 9 months or so, but you can buy that piece by itself for $2 at Loew's - it'll have a new limiter inside so make sure you remove it.
- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'd digg it.
- Quaterni0n, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Devil indeed! I replaced mine before and every shower head out there comes with a low flow filter (limiter) pre-installed. Do your hair a favor and take that sucker out.
- JonAce, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37"Low flow? Well I don't like the sound of that."
- BenO169, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I hate when I get beat to witty comments :(
- PurpZeY, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Or you could just not shower and be a true dirty hippie.
- SeventhSon, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14I want the Commando 450.
- pizzler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Quote: "The water pressure is only a little less that my old shower head and it works fine. After using it a few times now, I don’t even notice a difference." - Yeah right, what a liar! I am having a hard time believing that just a simple shower head, can make less water shoot out but at the same time keep the pressure the same.
If you have long hair [like most women and some guys do], you need good water pressure to rinse the shampoo/conditioner out of your hair....- pizzler, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18And did you see how much money you would be saving each year???? A whole $25/year!! What will you do with all that extra money!?! :)
- EssPii, on 10/10/2007, -3/+21Buy a better showerhead?
- brandvegn, on 10/18/2007, -2/+2Buy a more expensive low-flow then. I know plenty of "hippies" with long hair that also have low-flow. Maybe they don't use conditioner or something, but this argument seems pretty vain.
- wattznext, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Guys, I'm for being green and conserving resources and all...but i don't think we want to live in a world where something like THIS can happen
http://tinyurl.com/29jzc5 - isntreal, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10no.
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Judging by the first few fake sounding posts...spam. Buy one from anywhere but that link.
- Smight, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4How about don't buy one?
Anytime someone refers to carbon dioxide as "Carbon" instantly assume they are trying to sell you something; ESPECIALLY if they aren't selling a product.
- Smight, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4How about don't buy one?
- ajamer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6this is lame. Cleanliness is something you don't want to skip on. Getting sick once in 10 years will cost you the $250 you saved by being a little dirtier
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-554015174 ...- computergod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You can get sick from not taking a shower now? I'd think the bad smell keeping you away from people would your decrease your chance of catching something.
/Germophobes suck- ajamer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yes, washing away the bacterial growth on your body helps you from getting sick. Ever seen a healthy homeless person?
- computergod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You can get sick from not taking a shower now? I'd think the bad smell keeping you away from people would your decrease your chance of catching something.
- MattCairns, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16I ***** hate low flow, you can never have a good shower with low flow. Seinfeld FTW
Screw my carbon emissions! I like my carbon. - amonthei, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Are you kidding me, why in the world would I want to do that?
This particular one is not even that impressive. - trypto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Seriously here, hippies. Water is one of the least expensive and most renewable resources there is. If you can't afford water you have many other problems you ought to deal with first. Taking a shower with a high pressure, high volume shower head is one of life's few pleasures, enjoy it. You'll be less of a dirty hippie as a result.
- pinguwin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Water isn't particularly renewable in many places in the world. Talk to my friends in the Ozzie outback and see what they say about that statement. It's not just the water that is the issue here. It's the resources to heat the water.
I consider a shower to be a pleasure in life but if it is "one of life's few pleasures" I'd take being a dirty hippie than someone like you with so few pleasures. I have dozens of pleasures. Maybe one day, you can too. I've just come back from a six month trip where I only took solar showers, averaging 1.5 gallons per shower. Considering that I was extremely active during my trip, that I could stay clean should indicate that a "high pressure, high volume" shower isn't a necessity.- Nearoschyth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Do your friends live in Ozzie Osbourne's backyard or something?
- dign, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Poor Hippies... Always picked on, like Pigpen.
There are quite a few new technologies for water purification and desalination that are driving costs down. I think the focus should be on keeping pollution down in water, air, and earth. Through increased efficiency and advancing technology we should be able to responsibly maintain our standard of living.
- pinguwin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Water isn't particularly renewable in many places in the world. Talk to my friends in the Ozzie outback and see what they say about that statement. It's not just the water that is the issue here. It's the resources to heat the water.
- pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1i used to have a similar one to this. it actually has a higher force than regular ones because it aerates the water. the stop valve is handy to save water (or if you have a small shower stall), you can stop the water while you lather instead of turning the water off and finding the right temperature again.
- BedlamX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Stopping the water during a shower may conserve water but the device that heats the water will be running regardless until it reaches the set temperature. I doubt that the small amount of time you stop the water will be enough to shut down the water heater.
- pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i meant the process of fiddling with the knobs to find the temperature you like again.
- computergod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yup, there are low flow ones that just restrict the water flow and those suck .The aerated ones are better, but still sucky. The best of course is a high flow with aeration. Mine has been described as "painful" by some.
- BedlamX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Stopping the water during a shower may conserve water but the device that heats the water will be running regardless until it reaches the set temperature. I doubt that the small amount of time you stop the water will be enough to shut down the water heater.
- jetboyterp, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Why not just take a shorter shower, and save the time, effort, and money of replacing a shower head?
PS...the Earth has been warming and cooling long before man entered the picture. There is no man-made global warming. It's natural. And we have no right to stand in the way of nature. - infra172, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17Its because of assholes like you that nobody can buy a normal shower head any more. Every one is some low flow piece of ***** where the water barely trickles out. Normal people like me have to drill holes in them to get them to work properly.
Keep your tree-***** religion off of my shower head you hippie piece of *****.- frostmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3where my i visit your church? I am interested in your ideals
- Typhoon2009, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I hate low flow / low pressure things. I always get them at the shoddy hotels... dripping on me.. not washing shampoo out of your hair... horrible. I do remember something in the Sharper Image magazine, this shower head that supposedly would output water at a high pressure even if your main water system was low pressure. Sounded promising... and pricy.
- seanc6610, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1There's cheap versions of that for people who live on the upper floors of old apartment buildings. That's not really anything special, all you have to do is push the water through smaller holes.
- Lax32, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Or you could be like me, and take the water restrictor out of the shower head so that you get even MORE waterflow.
I may be killing the environment, but my showers feel too amazing for me to care. - sparkysko, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Low flow shower heads are craptacular. I pull out the rubber washer that they put in to circumvent them. More water flow equals quicker removal of that soapy mess equals less time in shower equals a happier ME.
My area has a water and energy surplus. If we want to 'go green' we should be using more nuclear power. - Morifen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I don't have to, I ate peanut butter http://www.digg.com/environment/How_Peanut_Butter_ ...
- SMF2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4i just had a really high flow shower head installed and it's f**in great. about a foot wide and runs off a 3bar pump. it can drain the hot water tank in about 10 minutes. bliss.
p.s. i presume these work by having smaller nozzles. if you like showering under needles instead of water it's probably alright.- fishbert, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"You get to drink from THE FIRE HOSE!"
- KLowD9x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4If my shower head had any less flow, it would be "reverse flow".
- Wrog, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2First few posts are spam methinks.
- PaulGriffin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Yeah and why dont I just turn my Xbox 360 in for an Atari because it saves energy?
I cant play Halo on an Atari. Game Set and Match...Point. Scott. - candyman420, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1give me a break, all these little "green earth" tips like fluorescent bulbs, low emission shower heads, hybrid cars, using only 2 sheets of toilet paper.. make just about zero difference in the grand scheme of things as long as china and india are burning so much coal.
- Screwy1138, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4yeah, low flow just means having to be in the shower longer. lame.
- FZero68, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I ***** hate those low flow shower heads.
- ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Good! You guys go ahead and make up for me. I removed the constrictor from my showerhead and drilled out the opening. The thing feels like a sandblaster! :D
- fety, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Better yet... instead of changing your shower head.. get one of these at your local hardware store (ACE)
http://www.therainwell.com/images/Water%20Recovery ... - nuggetz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Screw this. I removed the flow restrictor from my waterfall showerhead. Now it's better.
- Szandor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11You'll have to pry my high-flow shower head from my dead, well-rinsed hands....
- postal21, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4haha, this reminds me of the "low-flow" toilets from King of the Hill...
multiple flushes to get all the load down... oh yeah. thats what im talking about. - dickbain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I live in the desert and we're no strangers to local mandates that require silly devices. Our "low flow" toilets we're all the rage in the early 90's. Of course, they take 2-3 flushes to actually work, but on paper they save money. These shower heads are no different. You'll spend longer in the shower and use the same amount of water. $25 for a family of 4? 350 lbs of carbon (one less fat person buried a year?). Pass...
- Thundercracker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6*proud owner of a high-flow showerhead and a high-flow toilet(7.8 GPF!!!)
- ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2forget 2 flushes per load - You could flush 2 loads per flush! :P
- givemereplay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No thanks, I like getting wet when I shower.
- feckineejit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If you like to get all the soap off your body and out of your hair, don't use a low-flow shower head.
- linkerjpatrick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Ain't no way I'm installing a low flow shower head. I think I had way a few years ago when I bought the house and I replaced it with REAL shower head. Low flow doesn't safe way. You have to let it run longer to get the same effect. I'm also thankful I have a real toliet instead of one of these wimpy kind that barely have any water in them. Nothing worse than a toliet that doesn't have enough water to cover everything that get put in their.
- bmalachuk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I ditched the low flow shower head at my apartment, picked up one that actually has 2 heads, then removed the flow restrictor. I can drain the 60gallon hot water tank in 10 min. Nothing on this planet it better than that much hot water in a single shower.
- 5xSTUN, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I really think that this story was posted to digg just so people could make Seinfeld references.
- FranTaylor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Do you pay for your water? I do. It ain't cheap! That's reason enough, all by itself. The whole water pressure thing is a myth. I've taken perfectly good showers with one of those solar shower camping thingies, and the pressure is just about zero, it's just gravity feed.
Have you seen the new low-flow toilets? Wow! My friend has one. They have a bladder that keeps the water under pressure in the tank. When you flush, it's like a force-5 hurricane in the bowl. Makes quite a racket. Everything goes down on the first flush, and I do mean everything, and it uses hardly any water. - dBaba, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Yet another y2k problem. A 21st century citizen thinking that a 20 century solution is new.
- cosmicv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I make it a point to remove the flow limiting washers out of the showerheads in hotels when I travel -- just on principle. I hate low flows.
- greenspade, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1To the comments that the first few comments were fake. Sorry, not so. I just did put one in and It works great. Not like the crappy ones you are referring to. To those of you that believe we have all the water we need, get educated.
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