This article is one of those that only looks at the very surface of an issue and immediately jumps to conclusions. My take from this is that the author hates go

This article is one of those that only looks at the very surface of an issue and immediately jumps to conclusions. My take from this is that the author hates governments and wants to blame issues on governments regulating. The bit about phosphates being banned doesn't go in to /why/ they were banned. There's a very good reason for it! As use of phosphates grew over the last ~200 years in materials like soap, our waterways became incredibly polluted. Phosphorous in water is one of the major causes of the massive algal blooms that constantly occur as well as the ever growing dead zones in oceans near river outlets. Even today with reduced phosphorous soaps wastewaters contributes about half of the phosphorous in our waters. Something to think about when complaining about the government causing water spots on dishes.