Think about it: every time you flush your toilet the tank and bowl refill with clean tap water. Cleaner than a lot of people in the world have to drink! Here's a great way you can save a gallon or two each time you flush.

People sometimes get confused about how this thing works, and think they're washing their hands in toilet water. That is not accurate. What you are getting is water straight from the pipe in the wall. The water goes into your toilet AFTER you wash with it and it drains out the small basin hole.

With me? So here's what happens:

1) You do your business in the toilet

2) Stand up and flush

3) CLEAN water starts pouring out of the little faucet

4) You wash your hands with it

5) As you do so, the toilet bowl fills up with soapy water from your hand wash

 

The water savings comes from NOT walking over to the sink to wash your hands with MORE clean water right after you flush. The soapy water only drains into the toilet bowl, not the tank, which keeps things a lot cleaner. All you will notice, really, is a little white cloudiness in the toilet bowl water from your soap.

The water runs out of the faucet for as long as it takes to fill your tank back up. That's plenty of time for us to get a good soapy hand wash. I've usually dried my hands and left before it stops running.

Please consider buying one of these to help clean tap water stretch further in your area. Water is becoming a scarcer resource as our population grows and demand increases. Sometimes it takes some pretty extreme measures to gather and divert enough water from our wilderness to support humans. Damming valleys, diverting rivers, and draining lakes isn't good if you enjoy the outdoors.

 

And saving a bit on your water bill is nice too. This is an easy way to do so. As an added bonus, everyone who comes over to your house and sees this thing will get a kick out of it.