President Joe Biden may lack the authority to reach into your shower and turn the dial down in order to save water. Still, he is doing all he can to declare war on high-pressure showerheads.

The Department of Energy has proposed a regulatory change reversing a Trump measure that allowed more powerful showers. The language used to defend the action invokes climate change as well as water conservation as justifications.

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