Trump's Problems with Flushing Toilet and Washing Hair Prompt Changes in Water Conservation Laws

Aug 29, 2020

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News observers first thought it was a joke or fake news (as Trump calls it), but it was true. When last year President Trump made a bizarre claim that people flush their toilets "10 times, 15 times" per visit, many on the internet started tweeting about his digestive system! But Donald Trump's grievance against water conservation laws is real. According to BBC News, the US government has proposed changing the definition of a showerhead to allow increased water flow, following complaints from President Donald Trump about his hair routine. Under a 1992 law, showerheads in the US are not allowed to produce more than 2.5 gallons (9.5l) of water per minute. The Trump administration wants this limit to apply to each nozzle, rather than the overall fixture. The changes were proposed by the Department of Energy following complaints by President Trump at the White House last month: "So showerheads - you take a shower, the water doesn't come out. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn't come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair - I don't know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect."

Consumer and conservation groups argue that it is wasteful and unnecessary. According to USGS, US already has the world’s highest water consumption rate per capita at about 82 GPCD (Gallons per capita per day) for public-supplied domestic freshwater use in 2015. Relaxing the regulations by President Trump would mean more waste. Andrew deLaski, executive director of the energy conservation group Appliance Standards Awareness Project, says the new proposals triggered by President Trump are "silly". With four or five or more nozzles on a showerhead, "you could have 10, 15 gallons per minute powering out of the showerhead, literally probably washing you out of the bathroom," he told the Associated Press news agency.

Separately, According to an article published on NPR titled "Trump Vs. Toilets (And Showers, Dishwashers And Lightbulbs)", On the night that the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump, he delivered a two-hour campaign rally speech that took a detour — into the bathroom. His long riff about plumbing, household appliances and lightbulbs had the crowd in Battle Creek, Mich., cheering and laughing along: "I say, 'Why do I always look so orange?' You know why: because of the new light," Trump said in a complaint about energy-efficient lightbulbs. "They're terrible. You look terrible. They cost you many, many times more. Like four or five times more." ... Trump also shared his thoughts on faucets and shower heads. He even turned "toilets" into a call-and-response line, asking the crowd, "What goes with a sink and a shower?" Pantomiming a flushing motion, Trump brought his frustrations with low-flow toilets to life. "Ten times right, 10 times. Bah bah," Trump said, before pointing at some poor soul in the crowd and accusing him of requiring a lot of flushes. "Not me, of course. Not me. But you. Him!" [For real facts about flushing toilets, scroll down to the end of this news article].

Critics of Donald Trump accuse him of spending too much time on the toilet tweeting against his critics. Last year peace activist group CODEPINK installed a 16-foot-tall mechanical robot of Trump sitting on a golden toilet for President's "Salute to America" Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C. (pictured above).

The truth about flushing toilets according to EPA:

On average, toilets are flushed 5 times a day per person and represent the single highest use of water in the average home. Toilet flushing makes up about 24% of overall household water consumption (at average daily volume of 33.1 gphd or 125 lphd). Currently, the average flushing volume for all sampled toilets is 2.6 gallons per flush (gpf) (or 9.8 liters per flush (lpf)). Future reduction in toilet end use will occur as more homes use low-flush toilets (1.6 gpf, or 6 lpf) mandated by the 1992 Energy Policy Act, or high efficiency toilets (1.28 gpf or 4.85 lpf) which meet the EPA WaterSense specifications. A recent study shows that about 21 percent of all toilets in 5 states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia and Texas) have a flushing volume that exceeds 1.6 gallons/flush.

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