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  2. Flush toilet - Wikipedia

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    A flush toilet bowl during flushing action. Typical sound of a flush toilet. A typical flush toilet is a fixed, vitreous ceramic bowl (also known as a pan) which is connected to a drain. After use, the bowl is emptied and cleaned by the rapid flow of water into the bowl. This flush may flow from a dedicated tank (cistern), a high-pressure water ...

  3. Low-flush toilet - Wikipedia

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    A low-flush toilet (or low-flow toilet or high-efficiency toilet) is a flush toilet that uses significantly less water than traditional high-flow toilets. Before the early 1990s in the United States, standard flush toilets typically required at least 3.5 gallons (13.2 litres) per flush and they used float valves that often leaked, increasing their total water use.

  4. Residential water use in the U.S. and Canada - Wikipedia

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    Residential water use (also called domestic use, household use, or tap water use) includes all indoor and outdoor uses of drinking quality water at single-family and multifamily dwellings. [2] These uses include a number of defined purposes (or water end uses) such as flushing toilets, washing clothes and dishes, showering and bathing, drinking ...

  5. Toilet - Wikipedia

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    A dry toilet (or non-flush toilet, no flush toilet or toilet without a flush) is a toilet which, unlike a flush toilet, does not use flush water. [20] Dry toilets do not use water to move excreta along or block odors. [21] They do not produce sewage, and are not connected to a sewer system or septic tank. Instead, excreta falls through a drop ...

  6. Two weeks without running water: This is life in Western ...

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    A pallet with non-potable water, for flushing toilets, is positioned on Woodburn Drive, on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 in Swannanoa, N.C. for residents to use after Hurricane Helene disabled water ...

  7. History of water supply and sanitation - Wikipedia

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    Skara Brae, a Neolithic village in Orkney, Scotland with home furnishings including water-flushing toilets, 3180 BC–2500 BC. During the Neolithic era, humans dug the first permanent water wells, from where vessels could be filled and carried by hand. Wells dug around 8500 BCE, have been found on Cyprus, [2] and 6500 BC in the Jezreel Valley. [3]

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