Reduce toilet water usage

[bokep]

For the people who think that not flushing your pee is gross: open up your toilet and put a brick or something similar in it (make sure it doesn't float). It'll at least reduce the amount of water per flush. My parents have been doing this since I was little and I was a bit surprised that my friends had never heard of this.

One concern is that brick can slowly disintegrate over time. So get creative and use other things. Use jars and fill them up with rocks and/or water. Something along those lines. It'll cost you next to nothing.

Anyway it's a good easy practice to reduce your water usage. You could buy those water dams for about $10 but this method works just as well.

[eelfliw]

Or get a urinal. These use a lot less water than 6Lpf toilets.

[winks1]

or pee on a tree

[dark169]

just hide beer cans in there like Homer

checking your flapper for leaks will save you more water. Put a couple drops of food colouring in the tank, if it shows in the bowl (without flushing) it means water is flowing between the tank and bowl all the time.

[tottiwenjie]

why dont change your toilt with a low-flush toilet, and the toilet rated at 6 litres per flush or lower and meets the SPS requirement, and if you home already did eco-energy audit, then you can get rebate from NRcan and ontario.

[brunes]

1L ice cream or yogurt container filled with some rocks will not disintigrate and do just as good a job.

[jason9945]

1L ice cream or yogurt container filled with some rocks will not disintigrate and do just as good a job.

or Water...

[Rehan]

Even better than a brick would be an adjustable flapper. They're available in Home Depot / Rona / etc.

[jobby]

one can also use pet bottle filled with water and capped.

[Frankie3s]

You could also urinate in a bucket, take it to work and empty it there. Seriously, conservation is one of the reasons that utility rates are rapidly increasing. Just because you are reducing your costs doesn't necessarily mean that the utilities can do so as well. They still have employees to pay and capital costs and so as consumption goes down, the utility rates (or delivery costs) have to go up more rapidly than they normally would.

I agree there has to be a balance. But you are paying way, way more now for using less than before you had conserved as much. Pretty soon you won't be able to afford to flush the toilet (might have to go back to septic).

[Focus]

So when u need to do the "other thing" you take it out everytime? Mine went to a jar 1/2 the time then later went to the compost.

[pmc]

or pee on a tree

I just pee out my window onto the bratty kids

That's a good tip OP

[vipt2000]

For the low-flush toilets, I am thinking of replacing 3 in an older house (70+ years). We are getting rebates of up to $75/per in Ottawa. Can anyone recommend and experience with the 6L low-flush toilets that are reasonable and good that do not break your wallet?

Thank you.

[UncleSteve]

For the low-flush toilets, I am thinking of replacing 3 in an older house (70+ years). We are getting rebates of up to $75/per in Ottawa. Can anyone recommend and experience with the 6L low-flush toilets that are reasonable and good that do not break your wallet?

Thank you.

My father just installed 2 dual-flush toilets in his house (6 litres for solid waste and 3 litres for liquid waste). He bought American Standard and cost $200.00 each.

If the program in Ottawa is run like the one here in Halton, before purchasing, make sure the make and model is on the approved toilet list.

[wilsonm]

Actually those low flush toilets are just a scam.

Agriculture uses 90% of the freshwater for watering crops. The water you save from that low flush toilet in pretty much nothing compared to what the agriculture industry uses.

Same as bottle water. Since when does a bottle of water cost more than gasoline?

I think people enjoy getting ripped off.