Posted on 12/17/2020 7:31:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Trump administration has relaxed a regulation restricting water flow from showerheads, a pet peeve of President Donald Trump, who complained that he wanted more water to make his hair “perfect.”
Since 1992, federal law has dictated that showerheads shouldn’t spew more than 2.5 gallons (9.5 liters) of water a minute. As newer shower fixtures came out with multiple nozzles, the Obama administration updated the ruling, stating that 2.5 gallons was still the limit regardless of how many nozzles were running. The new ruling, issued on Tuesday, now says each showerhead can emit 2.5 gallons a minute.
“So showerheads - you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out,” Trump said last summer. “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. Perfect.”
Also this week, the Energy Department issued a ruling that sets no limits on energy or water use for new washers and dryers with short cycle times in their “normal” setting. The rule sets up separate product classifications for residential clothes washers and dryers with cycle times of fewer than 30 minutes and 45 minutes for front-loading washers.
The Energy Department said the rule on washers and dryers lets manufacturers offer new products that meet consumer demand for products with shorter cycle times. Environmental advocates had a different response.
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Never saw the logic with this. Toilets are one thing (a cycled task) but a faucet that takes forever to fill up a bucket or rinse your hands under achieves nothing as far as water conservation. Same with a shower head.
The old Seinfeld skit.
Unscrew the head and remove the restricter.
You can always pop open that showerhead, get your drill, and widen the inlet hole in the showerhead yourself. You can increase the lressure to the point where you could wash circus elephants if you’d like.
If the unthinkable happens and Biden is installed as president, who will these pseudo-journalists write snarky, petty articles about? And as we’ve been saying all along, this isn’t as much about Trump as it is aimed at conservatives, with the inference that we’re ignorant, racist, etc. and too stupid to “save the planet”. Is there any wonder our country is so divided?
Yep, an o ring. Take it out.
I didn’t even know this was a thing, but I’m not surprised.
I like how this change effects basically no one since it only matters if you have multiple shower heads.
How about, unless you’re going to pay my water and electricity bills, you don’t worry how I’m using either.
Funny how we pushed government out of the bedroom, but not out of the shower.
Sometimes it’s a fixed piece of plastic and you have to ream it out a bit...I do it to all of my shower heads.
I had a local (probably non-licenced) hick plumber install a shower a few year ago, and the guy used an old showerhead. He also cranked the temp up on my water heater.
I got in the shower and I got A TON OF HOT WATER. Just a soaking, drenching flood of beautiful hot water.
I hadn’t taken a shower like that since I was a kid.
It was HEAVENLY.
Or take a 1/4 drill bit to it.
That's exactly what I've been doing since these abominations were imposed upon us. It's usually not enough to remove the little restrictor; in addition, one must drill out the ball joint to enlarge the hole, as you point out.
There’s a little plastic doohickey (the restrictor) that can be removed. It’s in the head or the hose, and just pops out when you locate it. Just unscrew all the fittings and you’ll eventually find it.
I just changed out one of those miserable heads that have all sorts of fancy settings, none of them good. The needle jets of water stung something awful, specially on, ahem, sensitive parts.
I installed a Speakman Anystream and yanked the flow restrictor. It is SO nice now getting a good old fashioned real shower. This is a solidly built, well made shower head. They owned he hotel market years ago, but lost a lot of that (I’m guessing) with the water conservation regs. You can find Speakman heads on Amazon.
You didn’t know about this? Wow.
“You can always pop open that showerhead, get your drill”
I had to mod the aerator on a new kitchen faucet so I could fill the sink in my lifetime. In that case it was removing some parts. Works pretty well now. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
https://toolguyd.com/no-spill-gas-cans/
The best gas can out there bar none though on the expensive side. Excellent flow control.
I’ve switched to all of them and threw away the rest of the garbage.
My city (California) gave me nice fat rebate checks for energy efficient washer, dryer, fridge and new HVAC system.
I draw the line at low flush toilets and low-water emission shower heads. You’ll get the old high flow shower-head out of my cold dead hands - most likely my old “regular flush” toilet too.
I want a toilet that will flush properly, of course, but I don't like it that these damn Democrats want to control every aspect of our lives right down to our toilets, our shower heads, our light bulbs, our cars, etc.
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