analysis: quick analysis: 10 Water Conservation Technologies For Your Smart Toilet

Smart toilets are about saving water

Notes:

• Whereas toilets back in the day could use about seven gallons of water per flush, new designs like toto toilet use about 1.28 gallons of water per flush.
• There are several types of toilet technologies that conserve water. You can also contact a pro to get more information.

• Read through this article to learn more:

  • Toilets With Dual-Flush Mechanism:

    They are referred to as dual-flush because they have two water levels, i.e., more water for solid waste and less water for liquid waste. This helps to do away with using a lot of water like five gallons each time you flush the toilet.

  • Dual-Flush Toilets  (google images)
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  • Pressure-Assisted Toilets:

    These use normal water pressure from the water line to compress air in the plastic tank that’s sealed.

  • Waste is forced out of the toilet bowl when the compressed air is released, after the toilet is flushed. Less water is used in this case because of the compressed air.

  • Pressure-Assisted Toilets  (google images)
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  • Improved Dual-Flush Toilets:

    The toilet has a sink integrated into it. The fresh water used to wash hands from the sink is stored as grey water in a tank in the toilet. The grey water is what is used to flush the toilet instead of using more fresh water.

  • Efficiency is achieved both ways in that the toilet has dual-flush mechanism, and the integrated sink ensures that no fresh water is used to flush the toilets.

  • Grey Water Toilets  (google images)
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  • Toilet Tank Inserts:

    These are made of plastic that is mold-resistant and also non-corrosive. They hang inside the toilet tanks in such a way that they take up some space in order to allow the usage of less water per flush.

  • Even though using less water to flush could result to improper cleaning of the toilet bowl, it’s a cheaper way to conserve water before you shop around for another upgraded system.

  • Toilet Tank Inserts  (google images)
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  • Niagara Flapperless Toilet:

    This kind of toilet is fitted with a water reservoir bucket within the toilet system. This is done to enable water surge when the toilet is flushed. Using this mechanism ensures that there is no double flushing and thus conserving water.

  • Niagara Flap Toilet  (google images)
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  • Toilets Fitted With Fill Cycle Diverts:

    The fill cycle diverter system reduces the use of water by directing the amount that would otherwise fill the toilet bowl, to the tank.

  • The water used is reduced up to 1.5 gallons per flush, thus conserving it.

  • Fill Cycle Diverter (google images)
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  • Gravity-Assisted Toilets:

    These are made in such a way that water simply flows down from a tank into the toilet bowl to clean up waste.

  • Fixing the toilet and doing repairs is cheap because its parts are readily available in the Hardware and home improvement stores.

  • Gravity Free Toilet  (google images)
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  • Aqus Toilets:

    Aqus is a system fitted to collect water from the bathroom sink into the water reservoir of your toilet. Piping is done from where the sink is and into the toilet, thus, it’s not mandatory for the sink to be in the bathroom.

  • Yanko design is a similar technology to Aqus with more advantage in that the unit fitted with toilet and sink also has additional storage space.

  • Aqua Toilet  (google images)
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  • Leak Detection Tablets For Toilet Tanks:

    The tablets as the name suggests, are dropped into toilet tanks to detect any leakages that in the long run result to wastage of water. The tablets contain dye to diffuse fast and help to detect any leakage within a short period of time.

  • Leak Detection  (google images)
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  • Vacuum-Assisted Toilets:

    Vacuum-assisted toilets are more or less the same with the pressure assisted ones in that they are both made of inner tanks to prevent condensation on the outside of the porcelain tanks.

  • Vacuum-assisted toilets suck out waste from below by depressurizing the exit point which is at the bottom of the toilet. When the toilet is flushed, the vacuum aids in pulling out the waste out of the toilet bowl. They are less noisy than pressure-assisted toilets.

  • Vacuum -Assisted  (google images)
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• CONCLUSION

• Considering statistics by the American Water Works Association that about 24 percent of all water used in households is for toilet flushing, upgrading to any of the technologies discussed here will help to conserve water. This will translate to reduced water bills.

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