Trump Rewrites Standards on Showerheads After Worrying About How They've Affected his Hair
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Trump Rewrites Standards on Showerheads After Worrying About How They’ve Affected his Hair
“Because my hair—I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect.”
Alexander C. Kaufman
This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership.
The Energy Department proposed rolling back three-decade-old efficiency standards for showerheads Wednesday following President Donald Trump‘s repeated gripes about subpar water pressure while bathing.
The plan essentially seeks to change the federal definition of a showerhead to allow manufacturers to dramatically increase water use.
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Conservation advocates called the proposal a “gimmick in search of a problem” and likened the complaint to a 1996 “Seinfeld” episode about low-flow showerheads.
“The new multi-nozzle showerheads would not only needlessly waste water, exacerbating shortages caused by drought, but also boost the carbon pollution that has made long-term droughts worse,” Andrew deLaski, the executive director of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, said in a blog post on Wednesday. “No one benefits from this gimmick.”
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Increasing water use would add new stress to the environment and ratepayers at a moment when both are under severe and mounting pressure.
Three entire US states―Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico―are in a drought, according to the US Drought Monitor. In Puerto Rico, the largest US overseas territory, the government implemented water rationing throughout 26 percent of the island as drought yet again caused severe reservoir shortages.
Americans’ water bills, meanwhile, increased by an average of 80 percent over the past decade.
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