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How to Save water by using water from your toilet water tank.

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Summary: Each toilet uses 1.6 gallons of water which produces energy to flush waste away. As you may know the water in your toilet water tank is as clean as the water coming out of your faucet. I m going to show you how you can use the same water to both wash your hands after you use the toilet and flush waste doing the drain.

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Difficulty: Moderately Easy
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  1. Step 1
    Remove the toilet water tank cover
    Remove the toilet water tank cover

    Start by removing the toilet water tank cover and place it in a safe place.
    Be very careful not to break it.

  2. Step 2

    Using your Jig Saw cut a Piece of plywood that will serve as a new cover for your toilet.
    Using your Drill , drill a hole in your new toilet cover about 5 Inches from the right side.
    Drill another Hole in your Plywood toilet tank cover, big enough to host the drain for your water bowl.

  3. Step 3

    Connect your faucet to the Piece of plywood, Trough the new hole you just drilled. Make sure the hole is not too wide to avoid for the faucet to move.

  4. Step 4

    Remove the small rubber pipe from the float assembly and connect a new rubber pipe the water faucet and to the float assembly.

  5. Step 5

    Secure a Bow on to of the Plywood Toilet water tank using the drainage pipe a rubber washer to avoid any leakage.

  6. Step 6

    Paint the new plywood toilet water cover with the same color as your toilet.
    If your toilet is pink :) then paint it pink.

  7. Step 7
    This is a Commercialy sold unit from Sinkpositive.com
    This is a Commercialy sold unit from Sinkpositive.com

    Et Voila, next time you flush the toilet water will first drip from your new water faucet into the bowl then to the toilet water tank.
    Your new Faucet will Increased hand-washing frequency and reduces hand-transmitted diseases.

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ssserica said

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on 8/24/2008 This is an interesting concept but it seems complicated to do for someone like myself.

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