But it takes water to get the big logs to go down. What are we supposed to do, keep a coat hanger handy?
Funny, just this very morning I found myself wishing that I had a toilet from the 1970s.
I live at about 9000 feet, way uphill of most of the people on the planet. I have a big old Sir Tomas Crapper copper lined oak tank with a long pull chain on it. I enjoy pulling the chain and knowing that people below our village’s very fine treatment plant will have all that clean water to use!
How absolutely fitting that something churned out by Medill would pertain to the crapper.
I held out getting a low flow toilet when we re-modeled one of our two bath rooms. I worried about frquent log jams (as usually happens with low flow crappers) But the spousal unit taked me into it for design reasons.
A compromised was reached. My plumber installed one that some how "collects" pressure from the incoming water line. When you flush, it sounds like firing a torepedo from a Los Angeles class nuclear attack sub.
I some times have visions of the workers at the local water treatment plant yelling "INCOMING!!!" when I launch my morning projectile.
You just flush 6 times, you’ll end up useing more water than a normal toilet.
You just flush 6 times, you’ll end up useing more water than a normal toilet.
In the old designs it takes lots of water to get a lot of waste down.
The better new toilets can handle a lot of solid waste because of the bowl design and how the water enters the bowl. Toilets are rated as to how much solid waste they can handle and when I needed to change out my old 5 gallon toilet becaue the tank cracked, I researched the low flows and got one that flushes better than the old one using 1/3 the water.
I’m on well and septic, so there is no reason for me to conserve water simply to use less.
A combination of ignorance, smugness and environmental zealotry makes for some embarrasingly stupid grandstanding.
It's 1:30 am here for me now and I need a clear head to sytematically respond to the almost total lack of any useful knowledge of the scope of attention and analysis that goes into the design of sewage collection systems and treatment facilities.
I'll try to do a more thorough job of responding tomorrow.