Your Showerhead Is Lying to You
2nd March 2025
The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust, has been invaded by a sane person. Let’s hope he gets out alive.
On the morning of March 10, I intend to take a shower, turn my face up to the spray and burble, “Thank God for the Guardian!” Not because I admire the left-wing politics of the British newspaper, where they seem to long for the days when the Brits’ income tax rate topped 90 percent and Nigel Farage hadn’t been born. No, March 10 will mark precisely one year since the Great Shower Debate ended.
Or at least it ended for me when the Guardian published an article with the immortal headline “High shower pressure can help people save water, study suggests.”
Intrepid researchers at the University of Surrey had placed sensors in 290 showers around campus, recording data for 39 weeks from 86,421 individual shower sessions. “Water consumption,” the study found, sensationally, “was reduced by up to 56% with high water pressure.”