Trump takes aim at trickle-
down toilets, faucets
Reuters,
by
Timothy Gardner
&
Makini Brice
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/6/2019 6:21:58 PM
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said on Friday he has directed his environmental regulators to find answers to what he considers a big problem - water-conserving showers, faucets and toilets that restrict their flow to a dribble. (Photo) “We have a situation where we’re looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms ... where ... you don’t get any water,” Trump told a meeting of small business leaders at the White House in a complaint about low-water flow.He said the Environmental Protection Agency was looking “very strongly at my suggestion.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 12/6/2019 6:32:13 PM (No. 254929)
YAY!
I have had to look hard to find replacement aerators for my faucets to get a decent flow rate. With enough looking, I found nice aerators which produce the bubbly stream, but at a 5 GPM flow which used to be normal. I live in KS we have huge rivers flowing by, no shortage of water at all and don't need some Cali pukes who LIVE IN A DESERT telling us how to manage our essentially unlimited (automatically recycled) water supply. And I had to look hard to find toilets that actually WORK and don't clog up or require two or three flushes for solids.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bazi 12/6/2019 6:33:22 PM (No. 254930)
Hear! hear! Finally! So true. What the point of a low flush toilet when you have to flush it several times? Plunge. Flush some more. Preposterous!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 12/6/2019 6:34:11 PM (No. 254931)
Like the damned lightbulb control freaks, the water control freaks should be shut down. Fire the EPA and the Energy Dept folks in charge of these worthless programs to limit our choices.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 12/6/2019 6:54:10 PM (No. 254944)
None of your (federal) dam business.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
seamusm 12/6/2019 6:58:15 PM (No. 254947)
Lo-volume toilets are a much bigger problem than faucets and shower heads which make taking a bath or shower a much longer exercise. These toilets are clog prone and necessitate keeping a plunger next to every toilet or risk flooding.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mathman 12/6/2019 7:39:30 PM (No. 254971)
Do not forget the low-flow toilets that clogged the pipes.
Call rooto-rooter.
Big mess.
And the danger from a mercury swirly light bulb.
Save the planet. Don't bathe. And don't poop. And don't use TP.
And don't use electricity. Go live in trees.
There. Fixed it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MNluxiegal 12/6/2019 7:51:05 PM (No. 254984)
We have so much water in Minnesota this year that the rivers were near flood stage all fall. My basement sump pump was working overtime and just before Halloween we had several bitterly cold nights. One morning I woke up to see my front sidewalk covered with an inch of ice as it had frozen solid overnight and the water from the pump had flowed across the sidewalk. A triple dose of salt on the sidewalk and a sunny day with temps around 38 degrees managed to soften the ice to slush.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
iraengneer 12/6/2019 7:57:42 PM (No. 254992)
And in any event it is NOT a defined enumerated Federal matter. Find the issue in your copy of the Constitution. Hint: it's not there. Neither is there the slightest authorization for the federal EPA to exist it all. So it's illegal to exist at all. End it!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
vinegrower 12/6/2019 8:27:05 PM (No. 255002)
I admit that I live in a part of CA that is short on water. But these low flow toilets often need to be flushed twice or the lever held down to create more water. We took the restrictors out of our faucets so we could get normal water flow. The hotels have low flow shower heads which makes it impossible to get shampoo out of your hair without spending an enormous amount of time rinsing. How is this saving any water? I love this President he thinks like the average Joe.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 12/6/2019 8:54:20 PM (No. 255020)
I also live in MN and we've been blessed with ample amounts of water. Yet, there is a nearby gas station that has a sign posted in its bathroom how it is participating in the community water saving project. The restroom faucets barely trickle and you get so frustrated standing there. It's like the blow dryers that everyone hates --- so many would rather walk out without washing their hands, or be left to wipe them on their clothes or shake them in the air. Too much Nanny-State!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 12/6/2019 9:10:41 PM (No. 255031)
#5
You've got the wrong toilet.
I was extremely skeptical about these low flow models. But when I replaced 3 in my house, the toilets I got are absolutely fantastic.
Toto Drake is the model. 1.6 gpf and it really does the job. One flush every single time. I don't know how it works so well but it does. Over the past 7 years, we've maybe had to use a plunger 5 or 6 times.
We were constantly plunging our old full flush jobs. These will literally flush a bucket of golf balls.
Plus, we've saved a bundle on our water bill.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 12/6/2019 9:15:51 PM (No. 255036)
VERY interesting, #11! I, too, have discovered the Toto Drake toilets and installed three of them so far. Very good results, and they have a larger water passage and a very fast, hard flush action which is (intitially) very surprisingly short duration.
Go Toto Drake!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 12/6/2019 9:17:11 PM (No. 255037)
Oh, the other think about the Toto Drake is that if you order online you can get the white ones for about $250, so not really expensive like some.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Delta Dave 12/6/2019 9:45:37 PM (No. 255070)
One of the most dangerous environmental regulator problems is gas cans. They use to be simple pour spout with air flow vent at back.
Environmental regulators have turned them into dangerous fuel spilling canisters that are nearly impossible to operate so most folk just take off the flow control spout and pour free hand or jerry rig a spout that most likely leaks but pours the fuel quickly with minimum effort.
There never was a problems with the original pour spout design.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/7/2019 12:51:53 AM (No. 255172)
I agree with #14. I absolutely hate those new gas cans which spew gasoline every time you try to pour gasoline into something. Unfortunately, someone stole my old can and I was forced to buy one of these. Absolutely worthless. I bet some congress critter invested heavily in these new cans and is now making a mint off it.
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