The Hill: The Energy Department on Tuesday announced a rollback of a Trump-era rule that had loosened restrictions on water flow in showerheads.
The new rule restores 2013 regulations on how much water can be carried through showerheads. Under the earlier rule, the entire shower was considered under rules restricting flow to 2.5 gallons per minute. The Trump revision changed the definition of “showerhead” to every nozzle in a single product, meaning a single shower fixture could carry two or three times the previous limit in some cases.
The restoration is not projected to have major impacts on the showerhead market. The earlier revision came not as a result of the industry lobbying but rather frequent complaints from Trump himself that current showerheads did not carry enough water.
“You take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair – I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect,” the former president said in 2020. more
Whenever I buy a new shower head, the first thing I do is drill the restriction orifice out. Problem gone!
I only wish all the liberal demands could be as easily countered as this one.
Drill it out or just remove it. The ones I’ve bought the restrictor can be removed. The ones I’ve taken out are like a little rubber grommet.
What do leftists know about showers? Or bathing in general?
Silly and petty just like The New Green Deal itself.
Screw the shower heads, that can be circumvented in seconds. What makes my ass crave icewater is the abominations of spouts they put on portable gas ‘cans’ today.
Somebody needs horsewhipped. And screw you too PETA.
Low flush toilets? If it takes 3 flushes to remove the crap does it save any water?
What a bunch of morons.
Just like the low volume toilets. Just look inside the tank and find the float adjustment. Pay attention to the water level at “shut off” compared to the top of the overflow tube. Adjust the shut off position of the float until the water level is just about 1/4 inch below the top of the tube at shut off. This should give you at least 1/2 gallon more per flush. Make a few test flushes to make sure the water doesn’t rise above the top of the tube. There are on-line videos that show what to do.
Also – during a flush hold the lever down until all the water leaves the tank.
Only because they want to erase everything Trump did.
Oh good grief – are they going to ‘regulate’ how many squares of toilet paper we can use? OOPS – I shouldn’t give them any more bad ides, they come up with far too many on their own.
Speaking about fecepaper, has anyone notice what I think is counterfeit toilet paper? We by Charmin and you get a pack that’s about 100 grit and Not breakthrough resistant.
Here’s the way it works, Leftards. I stay in the shower until I am clean and then I hang out until there is no shampoo in my hair, no soap on my junk, no soap in my asscrack. I don’t leave the shower until it’s MISSION COMPLETE.
You leftards don’t know much about shampoo and soap.
But here’s the deal. I can do that fairly quickly, but if the showerhead puts out a sputtering water supply, it’ll just take me longer to do all of that, using the same amount of water.
Who raised you to be so fucking stupid? If you believe in low flush toilets and water restricted showers your brains do not function at an adult level. You are officially a moron.
Leave me alone or I’ll bash your head in with a shovel.
Go away
I recently stayed at a Holiday Inn, and the toilet had a small placard which reminded guests to flush only toilet paper. I’m all for saving the planet, but they never said what to do with the turd I had to fish out before I flushed….
@ Lowell
About the gas cans, go to Tractor Supply and they can fix you up with the solution. You’ll be pouring like Niagra Falls, again.
@ Phenry and Jethro: Use a poop knife!
“Leave me alone or I’ll bash your head in with a shovel.” -PHenry
Okay, but it will have to be one of those government-approved small ones that are safe for kids – about the size of a trowel. So, your bashings will take longer, also! đŸ™‚ (Thanks for the laugh.)
But quite seriously.
I have no desire to bash in anybody’s head with a shovel.
But math is math. it takes x gallons of water to shower. The showering/rinsing process requires the same amount of water, whether it takes 10 minutes or 20 minutes.
Plus, I am on a well.
stay out of my life.
We have way too much government.
@Cynic. Am I supposed to Google Poop Knife?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMITcQUe-9M
Got it covered.
@Anonymous OK you got me. Funny.
Kramer’s problem is that he had a shower curtain.
My shower is 4×8 with no curtain or door.
How much water is on the planet?
The almost the same as when it was created.
^^^
Scratch the first the….
Dang phone
Because muh science!
Hambone, do they have anything for my other low flow problem?
All the low flow heads I’ve ever seen are the same old regular shower heads with a plastic obstruction placed inside them. It’s easier and cheaper than redesigning and manufacturing an entirely new product. A small metal pick is all I’ve ever needed to remove the obstruction. YouTube has lots of examples of how to remove them. Simple.
those fucking gas can spouts. they can’t spill on accident, but you need three hands to operate one and still half the shit spills on the driveway. fucking democrat design again.
Wonky Honky, they are designed just for people like you, always get a good laugh watching people used products made that just don’t work.
These intrusive arrogant bastards want to be in every aspect of your life because they don’t have one of their own. They’re like a homeowners association. I once called the homeowners association where I once lived a Golfcart Gestapo. Pissed them off good. I would thwart them at every opportunity. I did have the advantage of a legal background which they lacked. Perhaps we should all do everything we can to resist the government’s push to total tyranny. Little things add up.
@wonky honky-In 2013, an idiot in Oregon used a Blitz gas can to pour gasoline into an already burning barrel fire and, shockingly, he burned himself. He sued Blitz, won, and they went out of business. This is why we can’t buy a decent gas can any longer. I hate the stupid dems as much or more than anyone, but, for once, this one wasn’t their fault.
@Antidote-A nasty case of prostate cancer resulting in a robotically assisted prostatectomy cured my low flow problem. However, I do not recommend it. I’m still looking for my pucker string.
Funny, but my copy of the Constitution doesn’t mention shower heads as one of the authorities granted to the Federal Government.
Must be an old copy.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …