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The flush toilets mandated by the govt are a disaster. The mandated 1.6 gallon flush couldn't flush a rat turd down the toilet. When I move I'm going to the Home Depot and buying a couple of new toilets and taking my old trusty 5 gallon flushers with me.

At our house we've figured this must be the government's logic for the low flow toilets.

Since it takes 1.6 gal. to flush, but you have to flush 3 times instead of just once, you are still saving .2 gal. per bathroom use. (end/sarcasm)

My husband is an engineer who specializes in, err, "water purification," as it's called.

Anyway, he calls the new toilets "Gorelets", and says that the people who designed them knew that they would have to be flushed more than once for some, err, "loads," but you only have to flush once for pee so they really do save water. However, they also waste time, waiting for the tank to fill up so you can flush again.

We have the big old toilets, and are never selling this house.-g-

I don't see what composting toilets do that septic tanks don't, except use water to flush, and I can't imagine not using water to flush. The alternative is a porta-potty, which is NOT nice.