[at-l] felix's e-mail re making a diff - oh, and some picsfrom our wild ...

[pvpvpv at earthlink.net (Pat Villeneuve)]

I have a friend in El Paso who places a bucket in the tub under her faucet. The water that she collects while her shower warms goes outdoors to water the plants. I've traveled to parts of the world where the water heater--when it exists--attaches to the shower head. It's good for about three minutes of dribble at various temps, and you have to be fearless when it comes to electrocution. I don't suppose I need to tell hikers that there are lots of people in this world who don't shower every day...

Give Me Chocolate



-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Booher <lbooher@pure.net>
Sent: Feb 8, 2004 11:44 PM
To: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net, Jim Bullard <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [at-l] felix's e-mail re making a diff - oh,	and some picsfrom our wild ...

You know, two or three years ago, we did have this conversation about hot and cold water, but in a different context.  I get annoyed at how much water we waste waiting for the water to get hot for our showers.  Kahley (where is she when we need her?!) said that they somehow saved the water for their garden, I think.  And she and her husband were getting some kind of special water heater that was environmentally friendly, but I don't remember what it was.  When we were hiking the Camino, we noticed that a lot of places in Spain had small water heaters hanging above  the sinks, so that there wasn't so much wasted cold water.  

anklebear


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