Noah+T’s+OpEd+Article

Toilets Why do toilets use good clean water!!! I have been wondering this for a long time and it has always bugged me. Now that we are in a drought and are in dire need for water, I can honestly not understand why we use such clean water to shit in. We in Californian already waste so much water on our unused front lawns, pools and other ridiculous things like showers and stuff; I mean who really needs those things? We have the ocean for that. Toilets can waste up to SEVEN GALLONS OF WATER per flush! That’s roughly 12,775 gallons of fresh water that is wasted in a yellow, brown and hopefully not green puddle each year! And that is only in one toilet! 27% of the average household’s water usage comes from the toilet. Although federal regulation for newer toilets is 1.6 gallons per flush (still a lot) it is not enough. I mean who buys new toilets anymore anyways, most people have had the same old chamber pot for centuries (years). I think if we find an alternative way of getting rid of our waste we may be able to save a lot of water and hopefully our planet for a few extra years at least. With the technologies we have today I am absolutely sure an alternative option can be found if someone actually cared. You are probably thinking “then why don’t you do it”, but...I don’t really feel like making my life goal to find a way to revolutionize the toilet, I mean that sounds kind of shitty, (no pun intended) doesn’t it?