Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff from house stuff works dot com
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Speaker 1: why are they replacing all of the toilets in this
Speaker 1: apartment complex? It's true many cities have conducted a massive
Speaker 1: drive to replace older toilets with new water saving models.
Speaker 1: Here's why. A family of four can consume something like
Speaker 1: three four hundred gallons of water per day on things
Speaker 1: like bathing, cooking, drinking, laundry, and dishwashing. Old toilets use
Speaker 1: about five gallons or twenty leaders per flush. When you
Speaker 1: consider that a normal person flushes a toilet seven or
Speaker 1: so times a day, you can see that a family
Speaker 1: of four consumes more than a hundred and forty gallons
Speaker 1: of water per day flushing alone. Depending on the article
Speaker 1: you're reading, the water consumption of toilets represents between thirty
Speaker 1: and fifty percent of the water consumed by a household
Speaker 1: each day. The new toilets installed in your apartment use
Speaker 1: one point six gallons or six leaders per flush. If
Speaker 1: you replace those five gallon per flush toilets with these
Speaker 1: new one point six gallon per flush toilets, you save
Speaker 1: a huge amount of water. Something like a hundred gallons
Speaker 1: per day per household for a city. A big reduction
Speaker 1: like that means that you can delay the construction of
Speaker 1: new reservoirs and new sewage treatment plants. That's a huge
Speaker 1: incentive to replace all the old toilets. Do you have
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