I bought one of those low-flo shower heads (like I had a choice) and hated it until a wise FReeper whose screen name I forget posted about how to remove the plastic impediment inside. I did that and now have a shower with power.
And as I enjoy it I imagine that somewhere a petty, crusty, tyrannical EPA bureaucrat is seething as I use “too much water”
When you can get power blasted like that, you feel cleaner faster. When it’s just a pathetic trickle at a public sink or with a shower where ever, I end up using twice as much water...or the same as I would have if they had it at normal power. Same with toilets. I used to work at an old building in downtown Denver. They had wonderful toilets! Sounded like a jet engine when you flushed.
Not so anymore.
I was used to doing that in CA.. I’ve had plumbers out here lecturing them to remover the washers etc. Now the faucet ;hardware makers make it to CA specifications.
It’s maddening!!!
It's worse than that. My CA local water district installed so-called "smart" water meters a couple of years ago. Now my bills come with a graph showing down to the teaspoonful how much water I used the previous month and any overuse above Jerry Brown's water use edict. Unfortunately the former Flower Children who control the Legislature are fine with that. They all yearn for the day they'll be in the position of making ever-stricter rules to control us yokels and "save the planet."
Remember George Orwell's prophetic line: "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."