What Is a Low Flow Toilet?
Low-flow toilets are a modern development designed to conserve fresh water, a precious natural resource. These toilets are also designed to adhere to new laws. Does this Spark an idea?
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Savings
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A low-flow toilet is designed to use significantly less water per flush than regular toilets. With flushing toilets accounting for the highest percentage of a home's total water usage, a low-flow toilet cuts down on the total daily water usage for each user. This leads to greater savings on the water bill.
Water Usage
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Traditional toilet tanks used 7 gallons of water per flush to help create a full flush in the bowl below. Later, toilets using 3.5 gallons per flush were developed. In the early 1990s, changes in federal water usage laws limited the amount of water used for each toilet flush to 1.6 gallons.
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Early Problems and Developments
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When low-flow toilets were initially introduced, a common consumer complaint was the need to flush the toilet multiple times to clear the bowl. In response, low-flow toilet manufacturers updated the passageways to more effectively create a full flush with one attempt.
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