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Plumbing's first green giant: remembering my friend Michael Martin, someone who firmly believed it was an engineer's responsibility to conserve energy and water whenever possible.

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Since 1979, I have been involved with the ASME A112 Committee on fixture standards. During my first few years on the Committee, I met a towering man from California by the name of Michael Martin, who represented the California Energy Commission. Michael was always very polite, prim, and proper. He spoke with a formal British accent, having emigrated from England in the early 1950s.

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Michael looked to be a few years older than myself. I quickly befriended Michael since he was a fellow engineer and had a strong passion for energy conservation. It was many years later that I learned Michael was 25 years older than me, but he never looked it.

Michael became known as a pain in the a** on the A112 Committee by many of the members. This was because he fought passionately for his cause, and he did it in the most gracious manner. In many ways, he was a good pain in the...

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