Designed with two buttons (one for liquids and one for solids), dual-flush toilets first became a thing in Australia back in the '80s as a response to the country's limited rainfall. The idea behind ...

Toilets designed to save water are actually wasting it at an alarming rate, says the U.K.'s largest water utility. Dual-flush toilets have separate buttons for heavy or light flushes with the goal of ...

A bathroom innovation designed to save water is actually wasting billions of gallons every year. Dual-flush toilets are wasting more water than they save, reports UK conservation group the Waterwise ...

Gerber Plumbing Fixtures LLC’s Maxwell Dual Flush is the company’s latest high-efficiency toilet (HET). According to the EPA, using a HET product (in place of a standard 1.6 gallon per flush toilet ...

You probably press them every day, multiple times a day if you have a toilet made in the last 20 years. But many people in the UK still have no idea what the two separate buttons on top of your toilet ...

Billions of litres of water are being wasted every week because of an innovation intended to cut water use. About 400 million litres (88 million gallons) of water are estimated to leak from UK toilets ...

Kampala — AN average person goes to the toilets more than three times a day. An average toilet cistern accomodates 10 litres. This translates into about thirty litres daily for long and short calls ...

BILLIONS of litres of water are being wasted each week by toilets which are supposed to cut losses. An estimated 400 million litres — enough to supply 2.8 million people — is lost from dual-flush loos ...

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