If you gave me an option to have to take shitty low flow showers for 4 years or Donald trump for 4 more years I’d pick Trump. Just saying. Water usage from households isn’t a real problem anyway, most water use is for farms industrial facilities. Urban is like 8%. For energy use yeah heating water uses energy not that much dollar wise and doesn’t contribute to peak demand because most water shower use doesn’t coincide with peak energy demand. If you want a super efficient shower for off grid living in the desert maybe this is a good idea but otherwise too much effort.
For me a good shower is one of life’s cheap simple luxuries that I value a lot. I’m not gonna give up 1 minute of showers so Coca-Cola can bottle another can of their shitty drink or somebody can grown more corn to burn. If we were using water efficiently in other areas ok maybe it would be a fair ask but in the current state it’s not.
From the article, there are other costs apart from the amount of water used:This practice requires two scarce resources: water and energy. More attention is given to the showers’ high water consumption, but energy use is just as problematic. Hot water production accounts for the second most significant use of energy in many homes (after heating), and much of it is used for showering. Water treatment and distribution also use lots of energy.
The finest shower I ever took was at my wife’s uncle’s house. It was a giant monstrosity if a house, built in the early nineties by them - a couple with more money than taste. Lots of weird bougie stuff - just fancy everywhere. The second master (where we were staying) had a shower with two opposing heads. But instead of the gold plated shower heads that would have matched the rest of the fixtures, there were green, plastic, farm grade nozzles. There were no flow restrictors in there. Just all of the water pressure I could handle. It was the most decadent, lovely shower I’ve ever had.
Russian spas are quite the trip. Never had a thermonuclear death shower, but I did receive first degree burns over the entire top half of my body trying to out tough locals in a dry sauna in Bishkek.
LOL if it makes you feel any better I have a scar under my right shoulder blade from the sauna at Mieko's, which had a nailhead that wasn't properly sunk. I leaned against that damn thing for 20 minutes expecting it to cool down and it just never did... The "thermonuclear death shower" is always cold. Which makes it always awesome.
Ha that place is a bit weird but it’s authentic, it was dirty and sometimes people were super inconsiderate but the actual steam room was legit. Personally I preferred Q spa in lynwood. It’s closer and good enough, no awesome shower though. Idk how any of this stuff survives unless it was funded by hot money. Maybe it will just change owners when covid dies down
I find "authentic" is hipster for "skunjey like I anticipate the original is based on my orientalist appreciation of foreigners." It's a way to say "if you don't like it it's because you don't revel in play-acting." Voda is authentic AF down to the fact that 80% of the people there are Mafiya. It's also clean and frickin' sybaritic. Like $50 to get in, tho and built in an old crematorium. The tracks leading into the furnace in the hot banya take some getting used to. I got an extraordinarily bad massage as part of a package deal at Q on New Years in 2017. I still have trigger finger from it.