An electric shower popular in Brazil threatens to strain Africa's electric grid as Africans adopt the technology. In Brazil, electric showers account for 30% of home electricity bills and 18% of peak electricity demand. Kenya wants to ban electric shower sales to avoid overburdening its grid and requires solar water heaters instead. The US monitors hotel guest water usage through wireless systems to encourage conservation.

1. A Brazilian import threaten to crush the African electric grid

2. • The impact of the electric shower on the consumption of
electricity in Brazil
• installed in more than 67% of homes It represents 6% to
8% of total electricity consumption
• They are responsible for 18% of national electricity
demand during peak hours
• $ 10 to install an electric heater at home requires $ 900
in electricity generation and distribution
• Electric showers represent 30% of the electricity bill at
home
Electric showers represent 30% of the electricity bill at
home
Currently, more than half of the value of the electricity bill is
tax, that is, everything that is consumed in a property. Much of
it goes only to public coffers.

3. The electric shower democratized the
hot shower.
Africans started installing electric showers which is the cheapest way to get a hot shower.
Shower usage in the latter half of the 20th century skyrocketed. Personal hygiene became a primary
concern, and bathing every day or multiple times a day is common among Western cultures
In Brazil, a ‘chuveiro’ can be purchased for as little as six dollars, while a gas-operated water heater
costs at least 20 times that much, and involves complicated installation to ensure safety.
The electric shower democratized the hot shower.
The Africans want that hot shower too,

4. Kenya Wants to forbid electric shower
In Kenya:
You might have to get used to taking cold showers if the Government succeeds in banning the sale of
instant hot shower equipment.
The Government is already implementing regulations that require property owners to install solar
water heaters. The Solar Water Heating Regulations of 2012 require owners of buildings that consume
more than 100 liters of hot water per day to install solar powered systems.

5. In the United States (2015)
The Environment Protection Agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system (IoT) that
will track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to "modify their behavior."
"Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the U.S. and around the world," an
EPA grant to the University of Tulsa reads. "Most hotels do not monitor individual guest water
usage and as a result, millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by hotel
guests."
The US wants to monitor hotel showers