EPA wants to monitor how long hotel guests spend in the shower

From Freebeacon.com (Mar. 17):

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower.

The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to “modify their behavior.”

“Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S. and around the world,” an EPA grant to the University of Tulsa reads. “Most hotels do not monitor individual guest water usage and as a result, millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by hotel guests.”

“The proposed work aims to develop a novel low cost wireless device for monitoring water use from hotel guest room showers,” it said. “This device will be designed to fit most new and existing hotel shower fixtures and will wirelessly transmit hotel guest water usage data to a central hotel accounting system.” [read more]

Why stop there? Why not monitor showers in apartments and homes? Why not monitor all water usage like watering the grass and flushing toilets? Or washing clothes and dishes in homes?

This is a waste of tax payers money. This is pure fascism. If this was mandatory in homes, the elites’ homes would of course be exempted. After all they are special and they wouldn’t waste water (because they are enlightened and so intelligent). Then again since the masses are not so wise they would be wasteful.