WEBVTT - How Replacing Toilets Works

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to brain Stuff from house stuff works dot com

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<v Speaker 1>where smart happens. Hi Am Marshall Brain with today's question,

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<v Speaker 1>why are they replacing all of the toilets in this

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<v Speaker 1>apartment complex? It's true many cities have conducted a massive

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<v Speaker 1>drive to replace older toilets with new water saving models.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's why. A family of four can consume something like

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<v Speaker 1>three four hundred gallons of water per day on things

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<v Speaker 1>like bathing, cooking, drinking, laundry, and dishwashing. Old toilets use

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<v Speaker 1>about five gallons or twenty leaders per flush. When you

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<v Speaker 1>consider that a normal person flushes a toilet seven or

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<v Speaker 1>so times a day, you can see that a family

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<v Speaker 1>of four consumes more than a hundred and forty gallons

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<v Speaker 1>of water per day flushing alone. Depending on the article

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<v Speaker 1>you're reading, the water consumption of toilets represents between thirty

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<v Speaker 1>and fifty percent of the water consumed by a household

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<v Speaker 1>each day. The new toilets installed in your apartment use

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<v Speaker 1>one point six gallons or six leaders per flush. If

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<v Speaker 1>you replace those five gallon per flush toilets with these

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<v Speaker 1>new one point six gallon per flush toilets, you save

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<v Speaker 1>a huge amount of water. Something like a hundred gallons

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<v Speaker 1>per day per household for a city. A big reduction

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<v Speaker 1>like that means that you can delay the construction of

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<v Speaker 1>new reservoirs and new sewage treatment plants. That's a huge

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<v Speaker 1>incentive to replace all the old toilets. Do you have

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<v Speaker 1>any ideas or suggestions for this podcast? If so, please

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