Phosphates were taken out because of algal blooms and resulting dead zones.
Most dishwashers have a coil to heat the water.
Most water heaters are insufficiently insulated to make holding the water very hot for more than a short period of time economical.
Pressure restrictors save water, and are fairly easy to work around for the few places you might want slightly higher pressure.
If you want hotter water in the wash, for some reason such as diapers, boil a big pot of water and add it to the washer.
Raise the tank to increase pressure for low flow toilets.
Waste not, want not.
European front load washing machines only have a cold water inlet and heat the water internally to a defined temperature (rather than “hot”) — they can be set as high as about 200 degrees.
When the water in the tank isn’t hot enough, it’s a breeding ground for germs. These are then atomized and delivered to your lungs in your morning shower.
None of the things that the EPA has done have been shown to save anything. Recycling is wasteful, ethanol is a worse pollutant than real gas and it destroys engines, toilets sometimes have to be flushed several times to work properly plus they splash and smell (great for those not-so-clean public toilets), etc. Everything the enviro-whackos touch is made worse for consumers, for efficiency, for health & hygiene, and for the environment. It has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with socialism.
That might be OK for you, but a lot of us in flyover country have our very own sewage treatment plant, called a septic tank. I want the bacteria in my tank to be well fertilized and strong.
Enough with the regulations and let me buy soap that works. The guys on the coasts can be part of the unclean masses.
“Phosphates were taken out because of algal blooms and resulting dead zones.”
Bullcrap. Its nothing but feel good crap. They ban it in dishwashers, but 99% of it comes from commercially used fertilizers that still use it. Every so called “dead zone” is downstream from massive farming areas.
This is just more “in your face” crap.