Comments on: Spend 20 Minutes Adapting Your Toilet, Save 3000 Gallons of Water a Year

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By: Marianne Meyer

Marianne Meyer — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:09:03 +0000

i have friends that just put a half gallon milk jug filled with water in their tanks. I’ll have to ask them if they have ever had any problems with it shifting as I know they don’t have pebbles or marbles in the bottom.
We have a super flush toilet – blasts really fast, doesn’t use much water at all but gets the job done. :o)

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By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:00:46 +0000

Totally easy and a fun school-kid project–had no idea it could save that much agua!!

By: sustainablyme

sustainablyme — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:23:19 +0000

I recently tried to use this method to save water and it worked pretty well once I got the kinks worked ou.t It did make my toilet flush a little less forcefully and my plumber ultimately suggested just replacing the toilet with a low flow rather than modifying my existing toilet since they are designed to work with a certain amount of water. If you reduce the amount of water in the tank, you run the risk if the toilet not functioning properly. You can read about my experience on my blog post One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (http://sustainablyme.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/one-step-forward-two-steps-back/).