In a gathering at the White House Friday, President Trump pledged to tackle the scourge of low-flush toilets, making the impossible case that water guidelines power Americans to flush 10 to multiple times subsequent to utilizing the restroom.
"Individuals are flushing toilets multiple times, multiple times, rather than once; they wind up utilizing more water," said Trump. "So the EPA is looking emphatically at that, at my proposal."
Trump may have been alluding to guidelines set up in the Energy Policy Act of 1992, which decreased the most extreme measure of water used in recently built toilets to 1.6 gallons a flush. While shoppers did at first gripe that the new toilets didn't flush efficiently, advances in latrine innovation, including augmented funnels and valves, imply this truly isn't a lot of an issue nowadays.