New York City residents, rejoice - toilets in new city buildings will soon have the capacity to flush 20 golf balls at a time. The New York City Council is now requiring all new buildings to install dual-flush toilets – and it appears that second-level powerful flush setting is really, really powerful. Watch the video of the American Standard taking its first of many full-on flushes ahead.
The city plans on installing the Dual-Option Siphonic Dual Flush Toilet in all new city buildings, and according the above video, the toilet can, swallow everything from 56 chicken nuggets to a pound of orange peels to even five large hot dogs with just a standard 1.6 gallon flush.
Of course, most people won’t need such a strong flush – which is why the toilet also offers a 0.9 gallon option – but whatever the specs, we applaud any initiative that’s sparked in the name of water efficiency.
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That is impressive. Not sure when I will need to flush even 1 golf ball, but impressive none the less. I do not live in New York, but recently have installed dual flush technology in my bathroom. I purchased a HydroRight dual flush kit. This means I didn’t need to buy a super expensive new toilet, but instead this kit costs around $20. With how easy it is to install, anyone can have dual flush in their home and help conserve water!
The new law only requires that toilets achieve an effective flush volume of 1.28 gallons per flush. Dual flush is one way of getting there, but not the only way – the other option is a single flush 1.28 gpf toilet.