Most of us are repeat offenders when it comes to excessive toilet flushing. In fact, the US Environmental Protection Agency reports that Americans use more water each day by flushing the toilet than any other activity, even showering!
Even if you are a responsible flusher, each flush is inherently wasteful. In drought-plagued California, approximately 203 million gallons of drinking water (yes, drinking water) are wasted by toilets per day. Precious drinking water is squandered while 400 homes in East Porterville, California have gone dry.
OK, so not all of us can afford a low-flow or dual-flush toilet, let alone get our landlords to acknowledge the emails we sent about installing one, but does that mean we are doomed to a humongous water-footprint?
No, thanks to the founders of Project Drop-A-Brick. As the name suggests, all you have to do is Drop-A-Brick in your toilet tank and you will feel 50-gallons-less-guilty each week following.
Read the entire story in Sierra Magazine, originally published on the Sierra Club website (www.sierraclub.org): http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2014-6-november-december/green-life/dropping-brick-your-toilet-has-never-felt-so-good