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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Makes America’s Showers Great Again

www.whitehouse.gov

Sure, the country might be in the midst of multiple crises, but at least the "Obama-Biden war on water pressure" has come to an end.

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I hate low flow showers too, but know what I hate more? Droughts and water utilities' excessive use fees.
These regulations weren't added because some bored bureaucrat wanted to dick around with the norms. They were added to address a problem.
As a Californian, Trumpy Dumpty flushed 5+ billion gallons of water down a river; water we manage closely preparing for drought season. That's a problem for us.
How are you creating more water/storage for this reversal Whitehouse morons?
- That's the neat part. They won't.
- Droughts and water utilities' excessive use fees.
  You should really be complaining about things like water heavy crops not having more limitations. 80% of controlled water used in CA is agriculture. Of that, 20% alone is used to grow tree nuts, like almonds, and 2/3 of those nuts are exported internationally. So just nuts are using almost as much water as all non-agricultural use in the State, and shipped overseas. Almonds alone use more than 14% of all agricultural water in the State. Maybe the State needs to start actually look at limiting crops like that, since that would be much more effective than shifting the burden to individuals.
  But it's more profitable to convince the masses that they need to do something personally, and buy new "efficient" or "environmentally-friendly" products to do so, rather than dealing with the actual problem.
  
  That would help a lot. Heck, I'd love to have an overabundance of cactus fruit at 10/$1 and there is someone off 5 who seems to be growing that. Makes me smile.
  But that doesnt help me much as we don't use our water from those reservoirs; a lot of my friends do.
  But if you can do the same work with half the water, there is a savings.
  You do touch on one thing I haven't seen mentioned, and it's the profitability of forcing upgrades. Man, oh man is that an epic ripoff! "Here's 10 tips to make your home more energy efficient and save $300 off your bill in 2025!" Followed by a list of 10's of thousands of dollars in upgrades: double pane windows, heat pump water heaters, mini split systems, induction cooktop, solar, don't forget electrical panel upgrades. I like tech and all, but damn, you're the utility, the less we consume, the more they charge. Makes me want to go off-grid.
  
  The meat and dairy industry use vastly more water and also contribute to climate change through greenhouse gas emissions, while almond trees help to reduce CO2. Maybe focus on that instead of buying into the animal ag propaganda.

”…ending Biden’s dumb war on things that work.”
This is real language used in official White House communications.
It is the language of a second grader.
- "biden is a stupid smelly poopyhead"
  ~whitehouse press release
- Simple language for his simple followers.

I was ready to complain that OP should use the real title of the executive order.
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JFC. This "order" is written like the target audience were all at a 3rd grade reading level. They spend more time complaining about how many words were used by prior administrations to define "showerhead" than they do explaining why they have such a problem with water restrictions. How stupid do you have to be, to not understand why water conservation is important...even in places where "you have so much water, you don't know what to do with it."
- To be fair, 54% of adults in the US have a literacy level below a 6th grade level. 21% are illiterate. So that leaves 25% of the population to be highly literate and actually read and understand this shit.
  By sheer majority of numbers, our nation is fucking stupid. Just look at our president...

I can't believe that this is the actual title of the fact sheet. lol
- The wording of the body text is equally stupid.
  President Trump is restoring sanity to at least one small part of the federal regulations,...
  Sanity? Really?

So in 3.5 yrs time, when America's potable water sources have shrunk by billions of gallons, is when the Blotivator will understand why a drop in allowable water pressure was a good idea.
His stupidity continues to astound.
- Human usage of water, while massive, is a fraction of industrial and agricultural usage. A much larger impact would be seen from limiting controlled water usage for the growth of high usage crops.
- “It’s the dems, they’re to blame with their low-flow”
  
  Bad hair day? Democrats.

Slumlord Don at it again.
Just like with the low flow toilets, he's holding a grudge because he had to spend money to refit the bathrooms in his properties.

Genuinely thought this was gonna be an Onion article about gas chambers.

To be fair, all shower heads I have ever bought came with clear instructions on removing the flow restrictor.
- I get the feeling the average person isn't fiddling with that, though I do know of one person who has.
  EDIT: either way, the win here is for the corporations who don't want regulations, not for the consumer (who will now suffer the downstream consequences of not having those regulations).