President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at weakening federal rules that restrict how much water can flow through showerheads.
In the order, Trump directed the Department of Energy to roll back water efficiency standards that limit the amount of water per minute allowed to flow through showerheads, which the president has blamed for poor water pressure.
A federal law in 1992 set standards that new showerheads cannot release more than 2.5 gallon of water per minute. As new showerheads were released in the market with multinozzles, the Obama administration set standards allowing for no more than 2.5 gallons of water to come out of a showerhead collectively. The Trump administration is now repealing those standards.
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