Donald Trump gets his way on making showers more powerful with relaxed environmental regulations to allow dual high-pressure showerheads (but no word on more powerful toilets yet)

The government took a step to rectify one of President Donald Trump's pet peeves just days before he leaves office by finalizing a showerhead rule after the president complained about water merely 'dripping out. 

The U.S. Energy Department on Tuesday finalized two rules easing energy standards on consumer fixtures and appliances – about a year after the president went on an extended rant about plumbing fixtures during a public event at the White House.

The rule rolled back a regulation dating to the Bush administration to allow showerheads with multiple showerhead fixtures to provide more robust water-flow. But the regulation – to take effect just five days before inauguration – will do nothing to meet Trump's complaints about sinks where 'you don't get any water' and toilets that people are flushing 'ten times, fifteen times' due to environmental regulations.

LET IT FLOW! The Energy Department issued a new rule on showerheads a year after President Trump complained publicly about water-flow

The government acted after Trump complained some showers don't adequately rinse his hair.

The rules are part of Trump's last-minute efforts to roll back rules that limit production or consumption of oil, gas and coal as part of his "energy dominance" policy.

The department also finalized a rule to exempt some clothes washers and dryers from standards allowing them to use more energy and water. 

Trump had complained in July at a White House event that water does not flow strongly enough from showers to his liking. "So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair - I don´t know about you - but it has to be perfect," he said at the event.

WASHINGTON, DC-NOVEMBER 18: Multi Head Shower in the 2nd Floor Bath at 526-2 Lamont Street on November 18, 2015 in Washington DC. (Photo by Benjamin C. Tankersley/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump spoke at length about showers, sinks and toilets at a White House roundtable last year

The final rule on showerheads will take effect January 15, five days before Trump leaves office

But it wasn't his only concern. He complained about sinks and toilets as well. 

'You turn the faucet on in areas where there’s tremendous amounts of water where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it. And you don’t get any water,' said Trump – who was a real estate developer before he took office.

'You turn on the faucet and you don’t get any water. You take a shower and the water comes dripping out. Just dripping out very quietly dripping out. People are flushing toilets ten times, 15 times, as opposed to once. They end up using more water.'

'You can’t wash your hands practically so little water comes out of the faucet. It takes you much longer to wash your hands,' he claimed.

Trump said the Environmental Protection Agency 'is looking at that very strongly at my suggestion,' although it was the Energy Department that issued the rule.   

The rule change effectively allows showers to include multiple heads that flow at the 2.5 gallon (9.4 liter) per minute standard Congress set in 1992, when Trump's fellow Republican George H.W. Bush was president.

The Trump administration says the rollbacks give people choices. "Americans can choose products that are best suited to meet their individual needs and the needs of their families," Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said.

But environmentalists said easing standards will boost utility bills and waste. The rules "allow for products that needlessly waste energy and water are ridiculous and out of step with the climate crisis," said Andrew deLaski, head of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project nonprofit group.

In his climate plan, President-elect Joe Biden said he would direct the department to issue new efficiency standards. 

The Biden transition didn't immediately respond to a question about whether Biden would seek to overturn the change. 

The language in the final rule reveals the technical lengths the government went to to meet Trump's demand.

According to the rule: 'DOE believes that interpreting the term “showerhead” consistent with the ASME definition is more appropriate than DOE's previous interpretation of “showerhead.” As described in section II.A of this document, DOE recognizes that the statutory definition of the term “showerhead” is ambiguous in key respects. Accordingly, to provide clarity to regulated entities and the public concerning what is meant by the term, DOE is revising its regulatory definition of showerhead using the definition of “showerhead” in ASME A112.18.1-2018. The most current ASME standard continues to define a showerhead as it did in 2011 when DOE first issued interpretive guidance for showerheads that defined the term to include all showerheads in a multi-head product —“an accessory to a supply fitting for spraying water onto a bather, typically from the overhead position.” 

The rule runs 19 pages in the Federal Register.