On 9/11/11 8:48 AM September 11, 2011, ss wrote:
This thread seems to be degrading. So let me get "back" (oops) to the
topic of frugality. Should one flush after a piss? shiv
This reminds me of the saying from the 1970s California drought: “If
it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown, flush it down.”
Ah, if only it were that simple.
Thirty years of intermittent drought later, it seems quite a complicated
problem, depending on the state of the water supply, the state of the
plumbing, the amount of toilet paper accumulating in the bowl, and how
long the yellow has been left to mellow.
If you are overly frugal with water, and the liquid-to-solid ratio falls
too low, the cost of repairing clogged plumbing will quickly dwarf any
possible savings. If you provide another place to discard used toilet
paper, you can get away with flushing less often, but you need to keep
enough liquid flowing through the pipes to keep the shit moving on down
the line.
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