How Europe saves while America wastes

The Europeans have developed such wonderful, low cost, no hassle ways of saving energy and water.

We spent a week in Lisbon this month.
Julie figured out how this wash basin saves water.
The low basin, plus the high faucet saves water. If you turn it on too much, it splatters water all over.
So you use just what you need. 
You get the water you need, but not the water you don't need.
Brilliant. Low cost. It works.