Arbitrary government mandates are arbitrary.
Originally published at VolkStudio Blog. You can comment here or there.
Do you know how much water each toilet used per flush before 1994? Just enough to make them function reliably. Toilet, like other appliances, were designed by people who understand how such things work.
Since 1994, US toilets were restricted to 1.6 gallons per flush. Why such a specific number was picked by government officials who were not experts in toilet design? My best guess is that they merely picked an arbitrary number. That’s what they did when designating minimum barrel length for shotguns.
Governments are good at setting up arbitrary restrictions and then enforcing them viciously. Remember that any time you think that “there ought to be a law about this”.