… President Donald Trump unleashed his latest tirade against American norms with an executive order Thursday in the quest of “maintaining adequate water pressure in showerheads.” He has eliminated federal energy definitions of the shower device in the hopes of eliminating restrictions for how many gallons a showerhead can emit per minute. First instituted during the Obama administration, then eliminated in Trump’s first term and then reinstated again by President Joe Biden, federal regulations limit a showerhead to emitting 2.5 gallons of water in a minute. In California, the maximum showerhead gusher has been 1.8 gallons since 2018. There should be no turning back on regulations that save water, but the president has other concerns. “I like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair,” Trump said Thursday. “I have to stand in the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. … It’s ridiculous.” What’s truly ridiculous is that the math of water conservation is so overwhelming in its usefulness, it should be bipartisan.
–Written by opinion columnist Tom Philp.

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