How many litres of water we waste everytime we flush the toilet?

Question

Just to prove someone about how bad it is to flush the toilet very often and for silly reasons.

Answer 1

Over one third of the water we use at home goes down the toilet - each flush can use between 6 and 13 litres of water depending on the size of the toilet cistern.

Answer 2

not as bad as eating meat. typical toilet uses about 4-6 liters each flush depending on the model. a pound of meat uses 20,000 liters. if that someone eats just one or two less steak meals, he is still about 4,000 times better than you.

Answer 3

If you flush it without reason, you are wasting water.

An old-fashioned toilet tank usually has about 3-5 gal water in it, or roughly 11-17 liters. The new(ish) pressurized models use about 1 gallon, or somewhat less than 4 L.

Answer 4

Between 5 - 10 ltrs

Answer 5

The lavatory/toilet flush here in UK is about 2 gallons on average - water wasted.

However, in Paris, the lavatory/toilet flush is different.  You press the panel and the toilet flushes until you take your hand off.  This means you can easily reduce the flush to less than half a gallon.

We should have that here in UK.

There is no water shortage here in UK.  In fact we actually have too much water most of the time.  Here in London there is always a glut of water, inspite of the rare hosepipe bans about every 5th summer or so.

There is a slogan for saving lavatory/toilet flush water -

"If it's brown flush it down

If it's yellow let it mellow"

Answer 6

Not flushing a toilet just to save water is disgusting. I wouldn`t let anything yellow "mellow", as that is just unclean.

We live in the 21st Century, there is no need to keep things in the toilet bowl.