I'm sure everyone is glad for the inventors of the flush toilet and plumbing, which began circa 31st century BC and ran on until 1907. Somewhere along the way, Sir John Harrington is credited with inventing the first real flush valve toilet while Thomas Crapper invented the first true siphon system for emptying the tank.
Even if we take it for granted, the toilet is considered as one of the major inventions of mankind which has benefited civilization with safety, health, convenience, and comfort. Whether you call it the toilet; the commode; the john; the loo; the library: the throne or some other term of endearment, it has earned its place in history as a technological fascination, with almost every home in the world having at least one.
Before the technology of toilets most areas of functionality for human excrement were crude and fowl to say the least. Aside from the very basic "go out in the woods and take care of business" approach, there were outhouses, bedpans, and buckets. These solutions were the sources of offensive smells at best and the spread of diseases and plagues at worst.
The indoor toilet changed all that. Once indoor toilets became available to the general public, many of the problems of unhealthy hygiene were solved for the overwhelming population of the civilized world.
However, this contraption by design uses and often waste a lot of water. It normally takes about 2 to 3 gallons of water to flush properly. This may not sound much but, in the long run, the everyday use of a toilet is flushed around 10 times a day which means the average toilet uses up 200 to 230 gallons of water in a day. That comes to about 1,400 gallons in a week; 5,600 gallons in a month; or 67,200 gallons in a year. And that's just one flush toilet.
So I would like to offer a solution to that every person could and should make in the toilets of their own homes. If you reduce each flush by as little as 1 inch of depth, you can find significant savings of around 1700 gallons of water in a year's time. By this simple technique you basically can get a week's worth of water free, each and every year. This is especially important in areas where water supply is limited, scarce, and/or rationed.
When a toilet is flushed, water fills the water closet until the water float rises far enough to turn the water valve off. Therefore, to save water in the toilet we need to lower the amount of water filling the water closet.
This can be achieved by adjusting and lowering the water height in your toilet tank. What we will need to do is lower the water valve float assembly. This can be done by adjusting the float screw on the outside of the assembly. Lower the assembly so that as it rises, it will automatically shut off the filler valve when the water reaches about an inch below the top of the overflow tube. This adjustment will reduce water usage so that there is less than 2 gallons of water used each time the toilette is flushed. In the long run, the water saved after every flush will count considerably in cutting down on you water bill.
It takes a only a small amount of effort to make a significant savings. If you have 3 or 4 toilets in your house you will truly be amazed at the savings.
By Kevin Shores
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