When I was looking at these at least a year ago, I found some comments about them flushing too strongly and splashing you-know-what all over the place. That made me quite concerned. Something to think about and possibly investigate (by crowd sourcing.) My theory was that the people with problems had HIGH water pressure and it is designed for a typical pressure level; it’s design is mostly conventional pressure tank – the clever part is their empty trap. I am for pressure tanks even though they don’t save water– they cut down on the reflushing so it is hard to measure the savings they likely have.

How about an article on home urinals? half the people are men and half flush doesn’t really work. Septic tanks is another one; I’ve always planned that my next house will be off city water/sewer. For them, you need some water so saving flush water is less of an issue (rain or well water, it ends up back in the ground.)

EfficiencySeeker,

Thanks for the feedback. Indeed, Toto makes a great line of toilets.

Justin

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/27841/introducing_the_nanolight_the_world_s_most_efficient_light_bulb/index.html

If I said the average toilet in the U.S. uses 1.6 gallons, that would be inaccurate. The average toilet in the U.S. uses 2.5 gallons. This is because there is a mixture of older toilets that use 3-8 gallons per flush, and newer toilets that use 1.6 gallons or less.

Yes, are still confused. I don’t need to read any ANSI specs, because I never referred to that information in the article. You implied that my article was misleading — it was not.

The article states that the average toilet in the U.S. uses around 2.5 gallons per flush. This is a fact.

It’s also a fact that the Stealth toilet uses 37% less water than a high-efficiency toilet as certified by WaterSense, as stated in the article.

I’m sorry if you were confused, but there were no misleading statements in the article.