The amount of water a toilet uses depends on how old it is. If your toilet was made before , then it could be using anywhere from five to seven gallons of water each flush. Newer toilets use about two gallons per flush. The average person flushes about five times each day. That is 10 gallons of water thrown out every day. You can check how much water your toilet uses by looking at the little block right behind the seat or under the tank lid, or you can check for the year in the tank of the toilet which could give you a good idea of how much it is using.
Flushing can also be very dirty. Each flush can spew water as far as six feet. That could reach your toothbrush! So letting the yellow mellow may help you avoid having your toothbrush become more covered in germs. Saving your flush also saves water. This increase creates problems as 21 of 37 aquifers across India and China, and the U. CA is a good example of overuse of water. That caused CA to have 1, wells dry up from Letting the yellow mellow could have helped save some of that water.
Not only does saving your flush save water, but it also saves money. If you were to flush every third time you used the restroom, you would be saving about six gallons of water each day.
The average person urinates about 6 times per day, equal to 7. That's about 2, gallons per year to dispose of about gallons of urine. On the other hand, the average person defecates about once per day.
If that was the only occasion on which a person flushed, that equals about gallons flushed, saving 2, gallons of drinking water. In a household of four, that would be 8, gallons saved per year. There is the irrational aversion many people have to looking at urine. Then there is the more serious concern about toilet bowl cleanliness. However, in many households, the toilets are brushed at least once a week hopefully anyway, and so there is no chance for significant scum to build up.
If you are truly dedicated to conserving H2O, consult a licensed plumber about installing waterless toilets, which will save water but can be expensive. If you really want to get creative, urine is filled with nitrogen and can make an excellent garden supplement.
To Messer, the answer is inevitable and will occur when the cost of water reflects its true availability. In his book Fostering Sustainable Behavior , psychologist Doug McKenzie-Mohr describes a study about trying to get college students to conserve water while using a gym shower. If a sign was posted in the shower urging students to turn it off when they weren't using it, only six percent followed the instruction.
But when a researcher was planted in the shower and silently performed the conservative act, a whopping 49 percent of students followed along. If two researchers were planted, that number rose to 67 percent of students. The problem with toilet usage, of course, is that it's inherently a private act. You usually can't be a visual example of not flushing down urine without putting your legal freedom at risk.
Even the offices at Water Smart don't let it mellow, not least because they share their bathroom with another company.
There's validity to that concept. Most activities are taboo for a reason. And, yes, Ebola can be transmitted through urine. So, OK, maybe an office mellowing rule isn't going to fly. But how do you get people to do it in the privacy of their own homes?
Messer was brought up never flushing, and that's stuck, even if it wasn't always pleasant. When you don't have air conditioning and you're living in a house with three dudes, it can get overwhelming. I grew up in Chicago, and flushing is just an automatic thing there.
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