Recommendation Spearheads Administration’s Water Conservation Efforts
-Washington, DC (Rueters)
President Barack Obama, in a press conference held jointly with Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, announced Tuesday a new eco-friendly initiative in which Americans will be urged to stop taking baths and showers and use bottled, alcohol-based hand sanitizers instead. The effort, code-named Project Hand-San, seeks to reduce domestic water usage numbers by about 10 percent by encouraging Americans to wash themselves daily, semi-daily, or even weekly using only hand sanitizers.
According to Secretary Chu, “Nearly 10 percent of all water used in the domestic setting comes from showers and baths. With Project Hand-San, we will try and eliminate this source of water usage completely by encouraging Americans to bathe in soft, soothing, silky hand sanitizer. Just imagine squeezing some all over your body, onto your face, your chest, your belly, your arms, your legs, your genitals…and rubbing and rubbing until it’s all dry…ahhh…”
After a moment during which he drooled with his mouth wide open, Secretary Chu continued, “Anyway, the point is that this is a no-mess way with which to clean your body. You even further reduce water usage by eliminating the need to clean towels, which by this point would be all but unnecessary. By proceeding with Project Hand-San, we will be able to avoid the monetary and environmental costs associated with using water to clean oneself.”
Part of the effort to promote the usage of hand sanitizer will include government-sponsored ads featuring models and well-known actors and actresses such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Penelope Cruz rubbing their naked bodies with hand sanitizer. Further plans include the subsidizing of companies such as Purell to produce more quantities of hand sanitizer, and packaged in larger, 5-gallon ketchup-style dispensers.
Also envisioned as an extension to Project Hand-San is a massive effort to reduce the amount of toilet water used.
According to President Obama, “Statistics show that 10 to 15 percent of domestic water use is due to toilet-flushing. That’s why, as a part of Project Hand-San, we are also trying to reduce the number of times Americans flush their toilets. Our new motto, which will be featured heavily in the form of television, print, and online advertising will be ‘If it’s yellow, let it mellow, if it’s a big brown shit, let it sit’.”
Added Obama with a smile, “That one was my idea.”
In all, Project Hand-San—along with its toilet-usage reduction provision—will have the potential to reduce household water usage numbers by almost 20 percent. And while many liberals and environmentalists are hailing the move, others are bound to remain apprehensive.
CNN contributor Candy Crowley suggests, “This will be a difficult move for many to make; Americans are notoriously ritualized about things like bathing habits, and many will be hesitant or skeptical to make such changes in their daily routines. But I must admit, the idea of rubbing cool, smooth hand sanitizer over the mountainous folds of skin on my naked torso while a massive dookie floats in the toilet behind me is pretty hot.”
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