Oct
You may or may not know that Atlanta is in a severe drought right now, and the Governor recently asked Atlantans to cut back their water consumption by 10%. Reminds me of a mantra of an old friend:
When it’s yellow … let it mellow
When it’s brown … flush it down
Yeah, that’s a little gross, but seriously we could do better to conserve water. Especially when taking a leak … it seems like such a waste to use all that water to flush away something that’s already liquid. I read this week that one county’s schools are going to those waterless urinals. A great step in the right direction. Let’s also get these in airports, malls, everywhere.
Also, I recently came back from Paris, where all the toilets have two flush buttons … one that deploys a smaller flush for #1. What a great, simple and effective idea. Why don’t we have these in our homes?
It looks like they’ve caught on in some airports:
Photo by jessamyn on Flickr
