Phoenix, AZ peeps

[WS6]

I'm working on a project for school about the tri-state water wars. I'm looking into ways to conserve water and I was told that supposedly certain areas of Phoenix have pushbutton shower heads. These are the type where you have to hold a button down for water to come out. Is this true? Where can I find info out on this if it is? Have any other ideas to share with me that may have been implemented out there since water is more scarce?

Thanks

[Kenova]

I'm far from living in a desert. When viewed from the air, the region I live in looks more like a swamp.
I have however used showers and sinks (highschool, gyms, work) that use a timed push button for water supply. You push the button and water will come out of the head or tap for a few minutes. I'm sure the time is adjustable. They aren't required by code, they just make economic sense.

Ken

[John Wright]

The campground that my family and I like to vist has those push button shower valves. It's not really a big deal, the water stays on usually long enough to get you good and wet and then it shuts off and gives you time to soap up real good, then hit the button again to get rinsed off. Might have to hit the button once more to make sure you get all of the soap out of your hair, but I'm sure it saves a bunch of water....


http://www.bradleycorp.com/products/appguide/showervalves.jsp

[dcozzi]

Lived in Phoenix all my 40 years.

Permanently close most of the golf courses. Growing hectares of grass in the desert so people can play golf is fkin stupid. Shut down golf courses in the summer when they are useless anyway. If you absolutely have to play golf when it is 120 degrees outside you can play on dirt and dead grass.

They use 1 million gallons a day X 250+ courses. You do the math. They say it is "reclaimed waste water" but, we have treatment plants for that kind of water. It is potable once treated.

[paul67]

Saw somewhere that Las Vegas pay you to rip your lawn up.

[WS6]

They do. That's because LV get's reimbursed essentially for every gallon they put back into the Colorado River. They can't put back water that was used for irrigation because it doesn't go into the sewage system to be treated. So they figured out what it would cost to convince people to put down rocks instead. If I was in Vegas, I would have rocks even if they didn't pay me.