Water Saving Tip

[Joe Guy]

I get my water bill online. This year it looks like they're including some handy-dandy tips to the bill for how to not waste water. I'm wondering if anyone here already uses tip number one and how that's working out for you......

Water Saving Tips

• Drop tissues in the trash instead of flushing them and save water every time.
  Use a WaterSense labeled showerhead. They're inexpensive and easy to install.

[Crackpot]

Uhh you’re not supposed to flush tissue they are not designed to dissolve

[Burning Petard]

The last time I bought the wood pulp product intended to wipe one's crappy butt, I noticed it was identified on the package in a very large type font "Bath Tissue" I had the wonderful thought experiment of pondering the result of using the stuff after taking a bath.

I do remember the California slogan in an earlier water crisis: If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

snailgate.

[Joe Guy]

Uhh you’re not supposed to flush tissue they are not designed to dissolve

I guess it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is....

Bathroom tissue....

[Scooter]

I'm thinking they mean facial tissues, or they would have said bathroom tissue or toilet paper.

That being said, when I was using a lot of pads after prostate surgery for urine leakage, I couldn't let them sit in the trash for more than a couple of days before the smell got to me and I had send them down the garbage chute. I was using an inordinate number of trash bags. So I imagine the same (or worse) would happen to a collection of used toilet tissue.

[ex-khobar Andy]

I remember the toilet paper 'shortage' during Covid, and people were advised to use Kleenex or equivalent. I wanted to go into the streets and yell Noooooooo! at the top of my lungs. As Crackpot clearly knows, and most people do not, they are entirely different products. We've all seen what happens to a Kleenex left in a pocket that goes through a washing machine - it comes out dry and reusable. Pretty much the same thing - i.e., nothing - happens to it in a sewage system and there was a real threat that they might block some systems.

[Joe Guy]

Yeah, I'm sure they weren't talking about TP, but they probably should have been more specific. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some budget-minded maga-people in my city right now setting aside used TP receptacles in their bathrooms.

[Scooter]

I don't think any MAGA people refer to TP as "tissue". They would see it as too woke.

[Burning Petard]

I do remember the punch line of an old joke about two guys in adjoining stalls in a bathroom, seeing only empty cardboard tubes.. The punch line is: Do you have change for a twenty?

snailgate

[BoSoxGal]

Lots of folks flush the wet wipes too which aren’t really flushable, even the ones which say they are. This leads to the creation of massive sewer monsters that routinely wreak havoc in the public sewage system.



fatbergs

[Bicycle Bill]

I do remember the California slogan in an earlier water crisis: If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

snailgate.

I'd heard that was a reference to former governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown.

-"BB"-

[Joe Guy]

I do remember the California slogan in an earlier water crisis: If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

I'd heard that was a reference to former governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown.

I remember the slogan well, but I never heard it connected to Governor Brown.

Maybe I just wasn't paying attention....

[Sue U]

I do remember the California slogan in an earlier water crisis: If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

I'd heard that was a reference to former governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown.

I remember the slogan well, but I never heard it connected to Governor Brown.

Maybe I just wasn't paying attention....

It was NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

[Sue U]

I do remember the California slogan in an earlier water crisis: If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

I'd heard that was a reference to former governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown.

I remember the slogan well, but I never heard it connected to Governor Brown.

Maybe I just wasn't paying attention....

It was NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

[Joe Guy]

I'll be darned. I didn't realize it was Mayor Ed Kock.

[Big RR]

Sounds more like Koch than Brown.

[Joe Guy]

Sounds more like Koch than Brown.

The phrase was popular here in California but I never knew where it originated and it's not something that more than one person couldn't have come up with. I can see why people who didn't like Jerry Brown might have used it but I never heard it used that way.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Origins and Key Historical Records

California Drought (1976–1977): The slogan is most frequently cited as originating during this period to combat a major water crisis in California. Some sources attribute it specifically to the administration of Governor Jerry Brown as a public conservation recommendation.
Late 1940s (New York): At least one historical account places the phrase even earlier, on signboards during a New York water shortage in the late 1940s. This aligns with another drought period from 1947 to 1950, where severe water restrictions forced citizens to stop flushing for every use.
New York City Water Shortage (1981): The phrase entered mainstream national prominence when New York City Mayor Ed Koch officially urged residents to adopt the practice during a reservoir crisis where capacity dropped to 30%.
Hippie Movement (Late 1960s): Anecdotal records suggest the phrase was used by environmental activists and "hippie" youth in the late 1960s as a lifestyle choice to minimize ecological impact before it became a government-endorsed slogan.

So says AI

[Big RR]

Sounds more like Koch than Brown.

The phrase was popular here in California but I never knew where it originated and it's not something that more than one person couldn't have come up with. I can see why people who didn't like Jerry Brown might have used it but I never heard it used that way.

Perhaps Joe, but Koch loved these little quotable quips--some rhymed, some were just witty phrases (at least in his mind), some were even downright nasty, but in a backhanded way. I can't recall another one right now, but I recall some people loved them (including the tabloids). I don't recall that with Brown.