Friday, March 25, 2011

How Low Can You Go?

We are not talking the limbo dance here. We are into water and how little can you use. On the toilet side we just replaced a water guzzler in our home with a 3 liter Hennessy and Hinchcliffe model. I am impressed – stylish and efficient! The mechanism is different in the tank, creating a vacuum to drive the water into the bowl - which quickly removes contents. Canadian designed, built and distributed by Phil Hennessy and Mark Hinchcliffe.
For even lower use, the Sun-Mar Excel NE composting toilet uses no water. We put one in our Muskoka boat house in 2009, with good results. It provides the overnight users a close, clean efficient facility and for the beach crowd – a convenient place to go – rather than hike back up to the cottage.
How low can you go?
Check out:
http://www.watermatrix.com/proficiency/
www.sun-mar.com