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Just making an observation. As someone living in Asia, pre-pandemic our apartment association had to buy 3-6 times the water we normally did, during this time o
by capybara_2020 5y ago
Just making an observation. As someone living in Asia, pre-pandemic our apartment association had to buy 3-6 times the water we normally did, during this time of the year. We had people visiting from outside the country mostly from the US. So basically for an additional 10% population at the very least we had to get 3 times more water.
A personal observation with relatives, they tend to use toilet paper. Maybe it is our plumbing. But they flushed like 5-7 times(yes I counted a few times). Flushes take a ton of water, not sure if toilet paper actually makes you use more water even in the west.
- jeltz 5y agoThis is mostly irrelevant since almost all of the water use in California comes from agriculture.
- MarcoZavala 5y ago
- giantg2 5y agoThere are toilets that use approximately 1 gpf that can flush toilet paper well. It depends on the design of the toilet.
- rootusrootus 5y agoJust need to upgrade the hardware to something more modern. Any mid-grade or better low-flow toilet made in the past 10 years or so can flush a lot of TP without any difficulty. Some of the early low-flow toilets weren't particularly good at it, and the high-flow toilets from the 70s were amusingly bad given the sheer quantity of water they use. Also, encourage people to use bidets. Those are the best.