This story is a great example of how a rumor gets started on the internet and snowballs into lunacy.
Ther EPA is not monitoring hotel showers. A university was doing a study on saving water and applied for a grant fronm the EPA. They got a $15,000 research grant. The EPA is not monitoring hotel showers. They are funding a resarch projecct of a university that is using hotesl as their data set.
And as someone who lives in hotels for work, probably one third of they year, I can tell you that all major hotels have ad campaigns that ask if guests will use towels more than once and allow the maids to only change sheets a couple times a week for long term guests. It saves money, and saves for those of us who are in hotels a lot.
Nothing notorious and no weird conspiracy.
You’re taking all the fun out of it, LOL.