 Our car is being serviced, today, and I used the toilet at the Toyota show room and the ladies room, was as large as my lounge room and contained a two-meter high vase of flowers placed on the spacious floor, in one large empty space. On a spacious wall, was one large work of art, opposite that, a vanity unit and about 8 meters in from the door way was the one single toilet, looking rather strange, like the single throne in the oversized for its use, room. I found myself thinking of how toilet design has changed from the dunny out back, I knew in the 1950’s. The toilet here in our summer studio home is one of the old-fashioned single flush toilets, no longer considered favorable given Victoria’s dwindling water supply. The old single flush toilets give a 10 litre flush of water, very wasteful if it had not been modified, to use less. This can easily be done by putting a brick, in the water tank. Our summer home toilet, works on gray irrigation run off water so we are not wasting clean drinking water when we flush. Our entire bathroom laundry system and garden watering system, operates from the gray irrigation run off and straight from the lake, untreated water, conserving the drinking water for kitchen use only. With that and solar power for both the water heating in our summer home and all power other than for the computer, in the caravan, we are trying to be very environmentally friendly. Back to the use of water and changes in toilet designs, the Australian, duel system toilets, help save Australia’s precious water supplies, by operating on a 3 litre per half flush and 6 liter per full flush. The full flush, being slightly more than that, used by the efficient, Toto toilets in the US. It uses one and a third litres less than the full flush in the Australian duel system toilet. It does this more efficiently that the regular Australian standard, toilet, by maximizing cleaning action, with two nozzles rather than rim holes, water is more efficiently used for a better bowl wash and a more powerful flush. I assume this efficient cleaning action would be incorporated into the newest toilet designs available in Australia and I have friends in Australia who have just purchased a toilet that has an automatically self-closing lid. I have to smileJ, and remember, with not so fond images of the honeysuckle covered little shed out the back with the thunder box and the newspaper on the hook that I can remember from my child hood. That is one aspect of the past, I am very happy to leave behind. There was nothing romantic about the old back yard ‘dunny’ or the risk of leaches and red back spiders under the seat. Modern ensuit set up caravansJ, make outback and anywhere travel, more luxurious these days with their spotlessly clean odourless efficient flushing toilets, and the home toilet is often a room of sheer luxury. What a difference.  CommentsMay 02/02/2010 04:42
You are so lucky to have a summer home! 02/02/2010 08:26
We feel very lucky too, May, we are alive, we have each other, (my husband and I) :-),we have a wonderful family, and nature all around us, the satisfaction that comes from a creative useful life, freedom, a roof over our heads and a comfy bed, good food and companions, what more can we ask for? Comments are closed. |
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