Honey, I Shrank the Car

Oh no, look at what happened to our car when I washed it with water...it shrank... How many times has that problem happened to you? Probably never, but hey, it might happen some time... What will most likely happen in the near future is our fresh drinking water will disappear before our cars shrink when we wash them.

It is a fact that there is a global water shortage. The earth has a finite amount of fresh drinking water in it, and as our global population expands, the amount of water per person will decrease. Starting this month (March 2010) South Florida will be instituting permanent landscape irrigation measures for year-round water conservation. South Florida is concerned about their water resources and is limiting landscape irrigation. According to the World Bank, world-wide demand for water is doubling every 21 years. Water supply cannot remotely keep pace with demand as populations increase and cities expand. The population growth alone does not account for all of the increase in fresh water demand. As standards of living improve, the need for clean, fresh water increases.

In order to do our part in not wasting fresh drinking water, we offer a waterless vehicle cleaning product, UltraLuster that can be used on your car, truck, recreational vehicle, motorcycle, boat, airplane, etc. and you do not have to use our fresh water to wash this vehicle. UltraLuster Waterless Wash allows you to clean a dirty vehicle without pre-washing or rinsing. Granted, if you have mud caked on inches thick, you will need to rinse the vehicle off first, but for the average driver, that will be a rare occurrence.

With UltraLuster Waterless Wash, you can spray the product directly onto the dirty vehicle, gently work it into the painted surface and then buff off. In those three steps, your vehicle has been cleaned, polished and protected with a liquid acrylic glaze. The finish is better than any wax or carnuba can leave, it won't get sticky in extreme heats and you don't need to re-apply UltraLuster on your vehicle (depending on use and location) at least once a month. Depending on where you keep your car and the driving conditions, the UltraLuster finish can last up to 6 months.

We also carry a full line of other waterless cleaning products, Carpet cleaner, Metal cleaner, Leather cleaner and Tire cleaner. If you have questions on any of the products briefly mentioned tonight, please feel free to contact us at hawgwash1@yahoo.com. You are always welcome to check out our website for the variety of waterless cleaning products we carry.

Continuing Water Shortages

For those of you on the East Coast right now, you are probably thinking that I am crazy to be discussing anything about water shortages. Actually, with the kinds of rains you are getting, they are not going to help the water shortage, the rain is coming down too thick and too fast and not falling in the right places to raise the water tables effectively.

As we were driving to Reno, NV we did go over Hoover Dam and boy was I shocked. The water level in Lake Mead is now set to drop below the May 1965 mark, which is very close to the trigger point for installing water restrictions in both Nevada and Arizona. Last Friday, the water level at Lake Mead was 1.096 above sea level. If the water level drops to 1,075 feet above sea level, restrictions will be put in place. The last time Lake Mead was at 1,075 feet was in 1937, when the reservoir was being filled for the first time. Lake Mead is a major reservoir for both Nevada and Arizona. There are other water sources, but those too are not fairing much better.

It is our responsibility to do what we can to conserve water. We are doing our part by promoting cleaning of vehicles (cars, boats, RV's, Motorcycles, airplanes, etc) by using waterless technology. Our waterless cleaning products allow you to clean your vehicle without using a drop of our precious drinking water. You spray the product onto the dirty vehicle, work it into the dirt and then buff off. The resulting shine is better than you could possibly expect, and the best part is that you don't have to go back over the vehicle and wax it to protect the paint. Our product, UltraLuster Waterless Wash puts down a UV protectant and Acrylic glaze. It is a better protectant than wax, Carnuba wax or otherwise could possibly be.

In as much time as it would take you to wash, rinse and dry your vehicle, you have washed, cleaned and protected your paint. By using UltraLuster you have now removed one extra step to protecting your car, you don't have to go back and wax the whole vehicle. What I like best about the UltraLuster is the fact that if you get tired cleaning, you can stop where you are at and not have any ill effects. Since you are not getting your whole vehicle wet, you can stop and pick up cleaning at a later time. The only downside would be that as you drive your vehicle around, some may notice the clean areas and the remaining dirty areas.

To date, the people using UltraLuster Waterless Wash have saved 30,577,500 gallons of water. That is pretty impressive. And, they are probably spending less time cleaning and protecting their car than all those other people using soap, water and then waxing their car.

If you have any questions about our UltraLuster products or any general questions, please feel free to e-mail me at hawgwash1@yahoo.com or check out our website, www.hawgwash.net.

Why Waterless Technology

As most of you may know, our original business plan was focused around Waterless Technology, specifically waterless vehicle wash products. Our core business was founded on this technology, and though we have expanded to include other products, we still strongly believe in saving water. The million dollar question is why would we have been interested in waterless technology years ago and why is it still pertinent now?

I personally first became aware of a water shortage in the early 80's while living in Southern California where significant population growth was occurring. Southern California used to be a desert, people loved the weather and the beaches so much that they opted to have water brought in via aqueducts from Northern California in order to support the people and agriculture. With unchecked population growth, the water use would also go unchecked until the water that was supplied to Southern California could not support the number of people and businesses using it.

Top that off with years of drought and you begin to see why a serious water crisis began. Cities started putting restrictions on when you can water your lawns and wash your cars. This crisis is no longer in small portions of the United States, it is now becoming a global water shortage. There are reports coming in from all over the globe of water shortages in China, India, Pakistan, and Australia to name a few.

We chose a waterless technology to wash your car because a normal "water" wash would use and/or contaminate 100-200 gallons of drinking water. If we could save anywhere from 100-200 gallons of drinking water from being contaminated, we could help slow down the wasting of our drinking water. Also by cleaning your car without water, you will have better, longer-lasting results in less time. To give you some idea of how many cars are out on the road that will need to be cleaned at some time or another, there are over 70 million registered passenger cars in the US today. And that number keeps growing. We are not even including airplanes, trucks, and other vehicles that need periodic cleaning. If we can reduce the number of vehicles being washed with water, then we can make significant inroads to saving some of earth's most precious resource, water.

Over time, I will continue to write about the water crisis, water usage and our waterless vehicle wash technology. If you would like more information now on how to help save water by not washing your car, please visit www.hawgwash.net and press on the UltraLuster Opportunity button. Or you can visit www.ultraluster.com/hawg1 .

Until next time....