At 10:37 AM 1/31/2002 -0800, Bill Potts wrote: >Liters per second (L/s) for toilet flushing is totally useless. Toilets have >to conform to certain conservation requirements, for which the total amount >of water used each time must be regulated. In that sense, liters per flush >provides EXACTLY the information that is required. If you were to specify >liters per second, you would also have to specify the flush duration in >seconds (i.e., seconds per flush). Then you would have to multiply the two >values in order to determine if the toilet conformed to the legal >requirements. A little silly, don't you think?
Not only that, but pressure-assisted toilets (common in public facilities) do not use tanks, so a tank capacity in liters is useless. As Bill said, the liters per flush is the specification that is needed. Jim Elwell
