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Posted on 05/07/2015 12:22:47 PM PDT by EveningStar
Whether it’s the “throne” or “loo” or “little girls room,” the sheer number of euphemisms speaks volumes about its taboo nature.
Still, taboo or not, the toilet is a player in the drought, accounting for 27 percent of indoor water use, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The efficiency of a toilet helps dictate how much water a family uses – or doesn’t – in any given day.
In Orange County, a typical home flushes about 19 gallons a day.
That’s why engineers are working on all manner of toilets of the future.
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Using the following toilet protocol helps conserve water during a drought situation:
“If it’s yellow let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down”
"BA-WOOOOSH! Now that's a MAN'S Flush!"
True story. One time in Kiev I sat on a Soviet era throne. I pulled the lever and was startled. Something like 400 gallons of water blasted through it in about 2.5 seconds. It felt like a Martin Baker rocket ejection seat. It is the only time I have ever felt slight fear that it might suck me in.
The Dnieper river has lots of water. Water efficiency was apparently not a design parameter in Soviet toilet factory number 31.
And the opposite was in San Francisco. The hotel toilet was a marvel. used about a quart of water. It began this delicate swirling, spinning motion. It was like something a Japanese aesthetics specialist would design. And it never failed to work,, every single time.
Weird.
Valar Dohaeris Ping?
Drought or not (except in loonville CA) No matter the color, no matter the consistency, flush it down.
We aren’t potty trained to continue to “keep it around”. We long ago did a way with chamber pots under the bed. It’s called sanitation.
My parents had a toilet that flushed at least twice all by itself. Would probably give the envito-whackos fits if they saw it in action.
My first low flow toilet was a disaster. Installed a new American Standard when my bathroom was remodeled 2 years ago and it works like a charm.
How much water does it save when it now takes three flushes to do what one flush used to do?
Tywin Lannister is not amused.
;-)
Heh, one of my favorite episodes, the Ferguson. The last throne we replaced is what I consider to be the equivalent of the mythical Ferguson. It was demonstrated by efficiently flushing a dozen ping pong balls in a flash of a flush and doesn’t use as much water as the crappy low flush, crappers that are perennially subject to blockage.
Now that’s a MAN’S Flush!”
Five gallon buckets and UPS labels pre-addressed to Governor Brown will do in a pinch...
I read an article a year or so back that found that the low-water toilets were causing problems with sewer systems. There was not sufficient water to wash the solids down the line. Anyone recall that?
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