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Toilet Tips

Toilets consume about 27 percent of the water used inside the home. You can save water and money by checking your toilets for leaks, replacing your flapper and installing a fill cycle diverter or upgrading to a high-effiency toilet.

Installing an early-closure flapper can save from one half to 1.5 gallons per flush. Investing in a high-efficiency toilet can save more than 4,000 gallons of water per person each year.

Toilet cycle diverter

You can save up to a gallon of water per flush by installing a fill cycle diverter in your toilet tank. The device diverts water to the tank and less to the toilet bowl. This information relates to the typical gravity-flush toilet.

  1. Pull hose out from overflow tube.

  2. Remove clip or holder, if any.

  3. Insert diverter into hose end.

  4. Push diverter onto overflow tube with one of its arms inside and one arm outside the overflow tube.

  5. In some cases, the hose may need to be cut shorter to reduce buckling or tipping.

Gravity fed toilet