Saving Water - From One End of the Pipe to the Other

Shall we go to the basics? Let’s talk about the Caroma dual flush non-clog two button toilet.

Caroma, the international authority in water-saving dual flush technology, sports the EPA’s water sense label, the most approved product of any brand doing business in North America. The water sense label ensures that a toilet uses 20% less water than the currently mandated 1.6-gallon toilets, and is a quality product that also has met rigorous testing requirements for performance.

In addition to being the leading resource for water sense product, Caroma, with 34 Water Sense approved models of high efficiency toilets, has the largest selection on the market.

The company continually sets the benchmark for the industry in water conservation. Caroma dual flush toilets can save a household as much as 18,000 gallons of water per year.

How Does the Caroma Toliet Work?

The Caroma has a dual flush system.  The left button is for liquid waste (.8 gallons) and the right button is for solid waste.  The Caroma was designed with a trap area that is nearly double standard toilets.  This feature along with the use of gravity forced “Washdown” technology pushes rather than siphons waste out of the bowl.  Thus as with typical low flush toilets, clogging and double flushing are things of the past.    Worry free, headache free.

The Caroma, with the dual flush system, can save 40% more water than 1.6 gallon toilets and 72% more water than 3.5 gallon toilets.

Shall We Put This in Conservation Numbers?

An average household of 4 uses 238 gallons of water per day.  From that amount, 60 gallons comes from the use of toilets.  Assuming  the toilets in use are 1.6 low flush toilets, a Caroma would save 41 gallons per day. 

This translates into 14,965 gallons of water per year.    Now, if 1,200 households used Caroma toilets that would be a savings of 17,958,000 gallons of water per year.

For example, take New Castle Colorado.  It costs the town roughly $.34 to produce 1,000 gallons of treated water.  There are approximately 1,200 houses in the town.  If everyone had Caroma toilets, the savings would equate to about $6,100 on water treatment costs per year.  Not to mention the millions of gallons of water we would not be using.    The savings on water is huge, but the savings on the carbon foot print is even bigger.  Typically in municipal systems, water and wastewater treatment account for the largest amount of energy used.

If 17,958,000 gallons of water can be saved in one town just by simply switching to Caroma toilets, imagine if everyone joined in.