Leaky Toilets
Toilets account for approximately 30% of the indoor water use of any house in the United States. Therefore, it is not surprising that if a toilet is leaking, there will be a significant risk of wasting plenty of water. A leaking toilet wastes a staggering 5,000+ gallons of water per month and adds hundreds of dollars to water bills.
There are two common ways to check for toilet leaks. The first is to do a sound test, meaning that you need to go to the bathroom and listen. If you hear a strange hissing sound, you may have a leak, and you need to further check the water tank, the water line connection, and the seal. The second is to do a dye test.
For this test, you need some food coloring or dye flakes. Remove the toilet tank lid and add a few drops of food coloring. After putting the pigment in the water tank, wait 20 minutes and check for dye in the toilet. If the dye is present, there is a leak.
In most cases, these leaks are caused by a faulty lid on the toilet tank. This relatively simple solution requires a short trip to the local home hardware store and a few minutes of handy work.
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If people would just flush the toilet every 3 to 5 times after urinating, it would save a lot of water, instead of flushing every time.
Water is a natural resource that belongs to the American people! Pumping and delivering water to the citizenry is done by private entities – they are entitled to receive monies for this service, however, THEY ARE NOT ENTITLED TO CHARGE US FOR OUR OWN WATER which belongs to us, the American people! This is another corruption and theft foisted on the American people and needs to STOP!
People who live alone do not need to flush after each bathroom use. In the last years I have paid for actual water use one month per year, except for the customer charge which is unavoidable because of government ripoffs.
If you do not like this country go and live in some other country that is better.
You pay more for bottle water than from your tap. If you do not like how things are done, just drill a well in your back yard and get YOUR water for free or dig a big hole in your yard, sink a tank, get water trucked in and drink and flush all you want.