The Trump administration is planning to make shower heads great again.
The Energy Department proposed on Wednesday easing water efficiency requirements for shower heads following multiple complaints from President Donald Trump about how low water flow is impeding his ability to properly wash his hair.
Trump has railed against shower heads that go "drip, drip, drip".Credit:AP
The plan would allow manufacturers to bypass a 2.5 gallon-per-minute maximum flow rate set by Congress in the 1990s.
Under current law, each shower head in a shower counts toward that limit. If finalised, the administration would allow multiple shower nozzles with 2.5 gallon-per-minute heads to each meet that requirement separately.
The rule comes after Trump has railed against shower heads that go "drip, drip, drip," as well as low-flow toilets and taps among other appliances.
"You turn on the shower — if you're like me, you can't wash your beautiful hair properly," Trump said earlier this month during a visit to a Whirlpool manufacturing plant in Ohio. "You waste 20 minutes longer. Please come out. The water — it drips, right?"
The rule, if finalised, would subvert a 1992 law signed by Republican President George H.W. Bush, and would lead to the waste of enormous amounts of water and energy, and increase greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, an environmental group.
"It's gimmick to put multiple nozzles on a shower head," Andrew deLaski, the group's executive director said in an interview. "There really is no good reason to reduce water and energy standards that have been around for 20 years."
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