If you’ve ever looked at your toilet flush, you’ve probably noticed two buttons instead of one, a small one and a big one. Most of us press whichever button feels right, without thinking twice. But ...

You’ve probably noticed it a hundred times but never really thought about it– those two buttons on your toilet flush. One small, one big. You press whichever feels right in the moment, without ...

You see it daily, several times, but never really think about why it’s like that. The buttons on your toilet flush—why are there two buttons, a big one and a small one? Are you pressing the correct ...

Q: My wife and I are in a disagreement over the new toilet we plan to purchase. We both want to install a high-efficiency toilet, but we have not decided on the flushing system. I would like a ...

Toilets designed to save water are actually wasting it at an alarming rate, says the U.K.'s largest water utility. Dual-flush toilets have separate buttons for heavy or light flushes with the goal of ...

The dual flush Conserver toilet, a high-efficiency toilet (HET) delivers an estimated average consumption of 1.28 gallons per flush (gpf). Featuring a top-mounted push-button flush release, the ...

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Indian households can significantly cut water usage by mastering their dual-flush toilets. Pressing the smaller button for liquid waste and the larger one for solid waste can save up to 20,000 litres ...