Thanks, that makes sense. European toilets are also volume limited by law but I have never seen the volume written in the porcelain. I wonder why the two continents differ in this respect.
>Of Phil Chernack >Very simple, >Federal law specifies the volume per flush as a water-conservation measure. >Code officials inspecting installations are going to look for this >information on the toilet. > >Phil > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Terry Simpson >Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:25 PM >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:27881] RE: Some toilets have metric indications > > >I have noticed that American toilets often have volume per flush on them. >Does anybody know why? > >I can't imagine that the user can do anything with the information. It seems >to me that it can only be of interest at the time of purchase. Even then it >doesn't seem necessary to print it on the porcelain. > > >>Of Nat Hager III >>The standing-room-only version lists 1 Gpf/3.8 Lpf, which most males >>spend several minutes a day intently studying. >> >>Behalf Of Ezra Steinberg >>Of course, the tank capacity is listed by most manufacturers as "1.6 >>gpf/6.0 lpf", but at least the metric indication is there, too. >
