{"id":40215,"date":"2019-12-09T01:04:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T01:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40215"},"modified":"2019-12-09T01:04:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T01:04:48","slug":"toilet-flushing-gets-potuss-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40215","title":{"rendered":"Toilet-flushing gets POTUS’s attention?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am trying to understand this one, but so far it escapes me.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump, who says climate change is a “hoax” and who yanked the nation out of the Paris Climate Accord, now says people are flushing their toilets too many times. They’re wasting water. He wants the government to look into ways to make, um, more water-efficient toilets?<\/p>\n

Well, I’ll be flushed.<\/p>\n

The president told a gathering<\/a> at the White House late this past week that people are flushing toilets “10 to 15 times.” Huh? Who does that?<\/p>\n

To be sure, I don’t know the toilet-flushing habits of others, but I have trouble believing that flushing frequency presents the kind of existential threat to our water resources that Trump seems to portray it.<\/p>\n

The consequence is the lack of water pressure, he said. “You can’t wash your hands practically, there’s so little water coming out of the faucet,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

I guess I need to get out more, or perhaps understand better what at times flows through Donald Trump’s noggin. I just don’t get this one.<\/p>\n

Of all the threats to our way of life — carbon emissions, deforestation, pollution, wasteful irrigation — Donald Trump has taken aim at the number of times many of us (he says) are flushing their toilets.<\/p>\n

Go \u2026 figure.<\/p>\n\n

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I am trying to understand this one, but so far it escapes me. Donald Trump, who says climate change is a “hoax” and who yanked the nation out of the Paris Climate Accord, now says people are flushing their toilets too many times. They’re wasting water. He wants the government to look into ways to … Continue reading Toilet-flushing gets POTUS’s attention?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[862,1424,9089,9088],"class_list":["post-40215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-donald-trump","tag-toilets","tag-water-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40217,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40215\/revisions\/40217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}