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““I’ll give you one regulation.... So I build, and I build a lot of stuff, and I go into areas where they have tremendous water,” said the confusingly coiffed candidate, according to Time.
“And you have sinks where the water doesn’t come out. You have showers where I can’t wash my hair properly, it’s a disaster!
“It’s true,” the billionaire bloviator added.
"They have restrictors put in. The problem is you stay under the shower for five times as long.”
The quest to reduce shower-water consumption started more than a decade ago. In 1992, federal regulations capped shower-head spray for the first time. The rules said shower-heads couldn't pump out more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute -- less than half the flow that was common until then.
In response, many manufacturers took their existing shower heads and choked their flow. The typical tactic was to insert a small washer called a "flow restrictor" into the shower head. That slashed water use.
Today, the 2.5-gallon-per-minute shower head remains the legal standard. Heads are still manufactured with flow restrictors, but the washers don't always save water. It is an open secret in the plumbing world that consumers often remove them -- a fix that takes less than a minute with a small kitchen knife. Some manufacturers even note on their packages that the flow restrictors can be pried off. A drawing inside the package of a Water Pik model even shows customers where the ring is located.
Water-strapped cities [local regulations] are moving to impose regulations. Miami-Dade County, Fla., began requiring earlier this year shower heads that spray no more than 1.5 gallons per minute. San Antonio will limit shower heads to a flow of two gallons per minute starting in January [2010]. New York is contemplating tougher shower-head limits.
So the hunt is on for a technological fix. For years, auto makers have used turbochargers, which force more air into the engine, to boost power without burning more fuel. Now, shower-head manufacturers are adopting a similar concept.
The quest to reduce shower-water consumption started more than a decade ago. In 1992, federal regulations capped shower-head spray for the first time. The rules said shower-heads couldn't pump out more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute -- less than half the flow that was common until then.
In response, many manufacturers took their existing shower heads and choked their flow. The typical tactic was to insert a small washer called a "flow restrictor" into the shower head. That slashed water use.
Today, the 2.5-gallon-per-minute shower head remains the legal standard. Heads are still manufactured with flow restrictors, but the washers don't always save water. It is an open secret in the plumbing world that consumers often remove them -- a fix that takes less than a minute with a small kitchen knife. Some manufacturers even note on their packages that the flow restrictors can be pried off. A drawing inside the package of a Water Pik model even shows customers where the ring is located.
Water-strapped cities [local regulations] are moving to impose regulations. Miami-Dade County, Fla., began requiring earlier this year shower heads that spray no more than 1.5 gallons per minute. San Antonio will limit shower heads to a flow of two gallons per minute starting in January [2010]. New York is contemplating tougher shower-head limits.
So the hunt is on for a technological fix. For years, auto makers have used turbochargers, which force more air into the engine, to boost power without burning more fuel. Now, shower-head manufacturers are adopting a similar concept.
Not so, more air requires more fuel to make more power. An engine requires ~ .43 lbs of fuel/per HP/per hour, a turbo doesn't lessen that amount and often increases it as surplus fuel is used for cooling. Playing so loosely with the facts, it's no wonder you're so willing to blame Obama for things that happened more than a decade ago.
Today, the 2.5-gallon-per-minute shower head remains the legal standard. Heads are still manufactured with flow restrictors, but the washers don't always save water. It is an open secret in the plumbing world that consumers often remove them -- a fix that takes less than a minute with a small kitchen knife. Some manufacturers even note on their packages that the flow restrictors can be pried off. A drawing inside the package of a Water Pik model even shows customers where the ring is located.
True, but not practical when you travel a lot and stay in hotels, as I would presume a presidential candidate has to do.
Water conservation is a good idea. Guess anything Trump touched or happened during his tenor is bad to the MSM.
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Biden reducing water flower rate on things like shower heads
