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Snap o’ the Day: thrifty toilet
by Hawes Spencer
Besides exotic food, including its signature chicken pastry, Al Hamraa, the recently-opened Moroccan restaurant in the Ix building, has something few, if any, other restaurants offer: a dual-flush toilet. Yep, this Caroma brand commode— seen here Saturday night in the men’s room— saves the world’s most precious resource by churning out less than a liter of water for fluids and the full 1.6 liters for, ahem, solids.
The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority will soon be punishing this business and all water rate-payers for their thrifty use of water.
Remember the more we conserve the higher our rates.
http://readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/02/23/prescribed-logic-watersewer-rates-set-for-11-12-hike
See also the Toto “Aquia.” It’s a Japanese make, but sold widely (and locally).
Nothing in dual flush toilets is as thrifty as a dual flush toilet retrofit kit Many people have never heard about them but they save lots of water and keep money in your pocket