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The shower, complete with one of those rain head thingies, in my room at the NYLO hotel in Plano, TX
For Thailand, this is a pretty great shower. It actually has a curtain to keep the toilet from getting sprayed with water, not to mention the rest of the room.
Note the tiny little hot water heater (upper right). Since their wiring is all 220, they can just put these bad boys anywhere, as needed. What an enormous amount of energy we waste, keeping a 50 gallon tank of water hot all the time.
My husband the plumber...did this in the first year of our house. It meant a wall was ripped out....a wardrobe demolished and my house was a mess for quite some time...but it was worth it.
Note: It's still not finished...while talented hubby is not very good at finishing what he started...just the odd ends...and it drives me bananas O-o
It took over a month to complete this project. In the end I was brain dead and I needed help from Barbara and Billy to figure out the simplest things. Billy was a great help, he brought brains and muscle to the project. He did a great job setting tile, mixing mortar and concrete. He also figured out how to install the shower doors into the tracks when the instructions were just a little too vague.
This is a real snapshot! It was a verry hot afternoon in a small bavarian town. In search of photo motifs, I suddenly beheld this young lady, which diverted the fountain ahead of the tourist office as a walk in shower. She did certainly not know that a photograph was around here. I take my hat off for the astonishing posture.
There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres.
When a billion people in the world already live in chronic hunger and water resources are under pressure we cannot pretend the problem is ‘elsewhere’. Coping with population growth and ` -- - - ensuring access to nutritious food to everyone call for a series of actions we can all help with:
- follow a healthier, sustainable diet;
- consume less water-intensive products;
- reduce the scandalous food wastage: 30% of the food produced worldwide is never eaten and the water used to produce it is definitively lost!
- produce more food, of better quality, with less water.
I am grateful for clean water to wash in -
Gratitude Series 2012 - photo #96 - Grazie mille - Italian
“This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
—John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir