In early June, the U.S.
Department of Energy, without advance notice to stakeholders, proposed to
re-define showerheads as shower valves, which would allow only a single
showerhead using no more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute per showering
compartment.
With the plumbing industry showing widespread disapproval of
the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed re-definition of showerheads as
shower valves, the legislative body recently clarified a number of points in an
e-mail exchange with Plumbing
& Mechanical.
The devastating floods that deluged the greater Nashville, Tenn., area with as much as 18 inches of rain in some places during the weekend of May 1-2 have had varying effects on the local plumbing industry.