[Vision2020] Personal Water Savings

[Don Coombs]

  Ralph Nielsen wrote:

> In Japan Toto brand toilets are universal. The Hilton Garden Hotel  
> near the Spokane airport also has Toto toilets (not named after  
> Dorothy's little dog in the Wizard of Oz). They use a minimum of  
> water. But the Hilton Garden has no volume control on the shower (in  
> the tub, of course), so that sort of cancels out any saving of water  
> the Totos might provide. And it also wastes a lot of heat for the hot  
> water.
> 

Toto toilets cost two or three times what the cheapest 
U.S. toilets cost, but less than a third what some 
fancy U.S. models cost.

And they work.

I don't think they use much less water per flush than 
the U.S. maximum-allowable 1.6 gallons--

But they work, which means some water is saved because 
they only need to be flushed once.

Space is also saved in the bathroom because the 
"plumber's friend" can be banished to the garage.

The reason Toto toilets work is that the trap and 
outlet passage is designed to avoid blockages.

Toto toilets are Japanese, but it shouldn't surprise 
anyone to find that the tank -- and perhaps the base -- 
is made in China.

What I find surprising is that most plumbers aren't 
familiar enough with Toto toilets to recommend them.

Don Coombs