Save your money! You can half-flush most any standard American toilet manually. Please excuse the big technical words in this official tutorial: The trick is to lightly push the flushy-do-dad so that water goes into the bowl without tipping the rubber-stopper-thingamabob too far to induce the full flush. After about 2 seconds of this balancing game, the liquids swirl down the hole, and you can let up on the flushy-do-dad. It seems to use about half of the bowl.
-Andy Margaret McCasland wrote: > Installing "half-flush" toilets is nice option for reducing water used > merely to flush yellow (I believe invented, or at least first > popularized in, Australia). I think they have become more available in > the US lately; check out the new toilet at Greenstar . . . > > Also Real Goods/Gaiam sells a retrofit "half-flush handle." Has anyone > tried one? I keep meaning to. It would help at the well or water > meter end, as well as at the septic/wastewater end. > > Perhaps a building code requiring half-flush toilets? I believe it > has been code in drought-stricken Australia for some time; it is > certainly common practice there. > > Margaret > > _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
