View Full Version : Neat Trick: Let's not be like Georgia and have a drought



metro
01-25-2008, 01:36 PM
I got this off Earth Threat dot org — What You Can Do To Help Change The World (http://earththreat.org/). It's a neat trick that essentially helps everyone.

Today, as my first post on Rethos, I give you a very earth friendly tip that I just learned about last night from the plumber that was here fixing a leak in the bathroom.

This is my most recent post from one of my blogs, Earth Threat dot org — What You Can Do To Help Change The World (http://earththreat.org).
Do you feel like saving bazillions of gallons of fresh water? I will now tell you how.
No, this is not the pop bottle full of water or rocks in the toilet tank. That does not always work that great. The bottle can get in the way of your toilets moving parts. This method does not involve any bottles, rocks, water, or tools.
If you have ever taken the lid off of a toilet, you know that there is a float ball in there that attached to a thin metal rod. This float balls level determines the water level within the toilets tank. Get in there, grab that rod, and bend it downward a little. Next time the toilet is flushed and the tank refills the water level is forever lowered (unless it is bent back of course).
Think about all of the water that could be saved with this trick. Toilets get flushed a hell of a lot. If one gallon of water is saved per flush, and that toilet is flushed six times a day, you will be responsible for saving over 2,000 gallons of water per year. Abuse five of your friend’s toilets and you will save close to 11,000 gallons with a six flush daily average.
Let’s start abusing shall we? We should have a contest or something. Thanks for reading.

http://s3.amazonaws.com:/rethos/uploads/296/toilet_tank_inline.jpg

metro
01-25-2008, 01:38 PM
Mod's can you please edit the title, I accidentally typed to L's.

Oh GAWD the Smell!
01-25-2008, 11:37 PM
yeah...Um...No thanks.

If your toilet is anywhere near being new, it's a water saver anyway, and you have to flush twice even on the short bathroom trips.

Cut off any more from my flush, and I might as well have a port-a-john in the back yard.

Martin
01-26-2008, 05:52 AM
agreed... but then again, if your toilet is anywhere near being new it doesn't have a ball mechanism on it like in the picture.

-M

Oh GAWD the Smell!
01-26-2008, 08:17 AM
This is true as well...But it wouldn't much effort to achieve the same result with a newer style toilet either.

And you couldn't pay me to do that.

John
01-26-2008, 11:01 AM
If you bent it up a little bit, you could get more water, right? ;)

The new 'water-saving' toilets probably end up using more water than old normal toilets, with us having to flush twice nowadays.

MadMonk
01-26-2008, 07:06 PM
You might need to put a lock-nut on the thread so that it doesn't work it's way back around and you end up either using more water per flush.