How was the 1.5 gpm “Jet-Stream” Showerhead invented?
K.H. “Skip” Haynes, the inventor of the 1.5 gpm “Jet-Stream” Showerhead®: In 1975, someone asked the inventor, K. H. “Skip” Haynes, how he invented the showerhead and here was his reply: “We were in the third straight year of a severe drought in the Western United States and I was trying to find ways to reduce water consumption in my home in Tempe, Arizona. At first, I purchased a few items to conserve water and read everything that I could find about residential water usage. I purchased a few showerheads and decided to measure the volume output in gallons per minute (gpm). Of the initial units that I purchased, the average was 10 gpm at 60 PSI. Most residential pressure is 40 to 60 PSI. I built a test unit to provide a measure of controlled pressure from 10 to 120 PSI and then purchased 70 water-saving showerheads from hardware stores and plumbing supply houses. Of the 70 units, 15 turned out to be fairly good water savers that ranged from 3.0 to 9.5 gpm, however, most had “restrictor
K.H. “Skip” Haynes, the inventor of the 1.5 gpm “Jet-Stream” Showerhead®: In 1975, someone asked the inventor, K. H. “Skip” Haynes, how he invented the showerhead and here was his reply: “We were in the third straight year of a severe drought in the Western United States and I was trying to find ways to reduce water consumption in my home in Tempe, Arizona. At first, I purchased a few items to conserve water and read everything that I could find about residential water usage. I purchased a few showerheads and decided to measure the volume output in gallons per minute (gpm). Of the initial units that I purchased, the average was 10 gpm at 60 PSI. Most residential pressure is 40 to 60 PSI. I built a test unit to provide a measure of controlled pressure from 10 to 120 PSI and then purchased 70 water-saving shower heads from hardware stores and plumbing supply houses. Of the 70 units, 15 turned out to be fairly good water savers that ranged from 3.0 to 9.5 gpm, however, most had “restricto
K.H. “Skip” Haynes, the inventor of the 1.5 gpm “Jet-Stream” Showerhead®: In 1975, someone asked the inventor, K. H. “Skip” Haynes, how he invented the showerhead and here was his reply: “We were in the third straight year of a severe drought in the Western United States and I was trying to find ways to reduce water consumption in my home in Tempe, Arizona. At first, I purchased a few items to conserve water and read everything that I could find about residential water usage. I purchased a few shower heads and decided to measure the volume output in gallons per minute (gpm). Of the initial units that I purchased, the average was 10 gpm at 60 PSI. Most residential pressure is 40 to 60 PSI. I built a test unit to provide a measure of controlled pressure from 10 to 120 PSI and then purchased 70 water-saving shower heads from hardware stores and plumbing supply houses. Of the 70 units, 15 turned out to be fairly good water savers that ranged from 3.0 to 9.5 gpm, however, most had “restrict
