[FixedandDilated]

Toilets: Bill would require installation of toilets that use less than an average of 1.6 gallons per flush in new homes, schools and office buildings starting in 2009. (AB 2496)

LESS than 1.6 gl/flush? So many of the low-flow toilets now need to be flushed 2-3 times to, er, finish the job. I had a feeling this was going to be next, knowing how so many extreme environmental wackos think that the flush toilet is the bane of modern existence. Remember reading about the "dry composting toilet" conferences? That'll be next, requiring "dry toilets" in homes. Less than 1.6 gallons/flush is getting there.

[FairOpinion]

Army changes spec to waterless urinals

http://www.contractormag.com/articles/newsarticle.cfm?newsid=961

[FairOpinion]

Just to show you that the waterless urinals article from Contractor's magazine was NOT a joke, here is another article on the same subject from the Army Times:


Waste not: Waterless urinals are on the way

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2049058.php


Waterless urinals are the wave of the future, and in the Defense Department, the Army is leading the way.

Senate appropriators lauded the Army for a policy issued this summer requiring the use of “nonwater-using urinals.”


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I think Senators and Congress in general have too much time on their hands. They avoid the issues they should be working on, like reforming social security, and spend their time specifying waterless urinals.

Pretty soon we'll all be going back to outhouses.