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How your Toilet can help the UK fight climate change15th July 2011 According to a recent report in the Telegraph, using water-saving devices in toilets can dramatically help in the fight against climate change in the UK. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) revealed in its second report that the UK is just not adequately prepared for the consequences of the increasing risk of extreme weather events due to climate change.In a statement from Lord Krebs, the Government’s climate change adviser, local authorities were urged to take the issue of climate change more seriously by installing water meters in all homes over the next decade and offering more advice to homeowners regarding water-saving devices. These measures can include fitting aerator nozzles to taps and placing a “hippo” or other water-saving device in toilets to reduce the length of flush. Other ways of reducing water consumption include fitting water butts, fixing dripping taps and fitting a water-efficient shower head. It is vital that homeowners play their part in water conservation and equip toilets and other bathroom and household fixtures with devices aimed at saving this precious resource and preserving supplies for the future. At Heatandplumb.com we are keen to encourage water-saving in the home and our product range includes accessories such as the Cistermiser water management system, designed for use with all types of toilets in both the domestic and commercial sectors. Types of ToiletsToilets not only come in a huge range of styles - but there are also quite a few different toilets to suit your bathroom needs. The different styles of toilet are...
But before your do - you many be interested in the article below about 'The History of the Toilet'... History of the ToiletThe invention that has had the most impact on humans - is the invention of modern toilets. Rather, it is the toilet (with a concomitant waste treatment device) that has made possible high density human population. Consider what life in a large city would be like if everyone in a 50 story apartment tower had to use the same outhouse. Or worse, if everyone emptied their chamberpots off the balcony as was still commonplace less than a hundred and fify years ago. It would bring a whole new meaning to the phase "morning rush hour".Without the toilet, high density cities would not be possible. And yet, perhaps because of it's simiplicity and ubiquity, it is assumed the toilet has been around for a long time. In fact, the toilet is a relatively modern device developed in the same era that begot train travel and wire communication: the industrial revolution during the middle and late nineteenth century. And as with much of the industrial revolution, England was the cradle. Because the patent offices of England and the United States have maintained several hundred years of records for patent applications, the inventors of sanitary equipment are fairly well documented. Credit for the invention of the toilet is usually bestowed on Sir John Harington, a relative of the Queen, as far back as 1596. It was claimed two models were actually made and used. But none survived, if they even existed at all. Crediting Harington for inventing the toilet is the same as anointing Leonardo Da Vinci as father of the helicopter. Conceptionally they may have had a good idea, but making it actually function is something entirely different. Approximately two hundred years later in 1775, Alexander Cummings received an English patent for putting a water trap under a bowl. This was a major advancement towards a true functioning toilet yet nothing changed in the general market. In fact, until iron foundries improved cast iron pipe and potteries improved terra cotta pipe in the 1800's, if there had been a functioning toilet, it would have been placed in the outhouse anyway. The most efficient first generation toilet was the simplest. A bowl with a hole in the front or back and a p-trap beneath filled with water to seal the house from sewer gas. Basically what Alexander Cummings had designed a century prior. In configuration, it is little different than a typical kitchen sink. Yet it is a major improvement over devices that used values or pans to seal the bowl from the malodorous putrefaction seeping from the septic pit. These first generation toilets came to be known as "wash-out" water closets. Several companies in England were selling them as early as the 1870's. One company, Thomas Twyford of England, is given credit for the first all-ceramic toilet. The "dolphin" wash-out was exhibited at the 1876 world's fair in Philadelphia, although it is not certain that Twyford was the manufacturer. These new English wash-out toilets proved very popular where municipalities had installed water and waste lines. Toilets were exported to the continent and America spawning interest by local manufacturers. Further Toilets Articles Greener Toilets make for a Greener Bathroom Bathrooms used to be simple; however, now with toilets at the forefront of the economic infatuation, toilets have become much more complicated. The Fish Tank Toilet If you’re looking for an innovative, contemporary way to enhance and boost your bathroom this could be the perfect answer, a new fish tank toilet! |
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