An Innovative Toilet

Most people try their best to stop their pets from drinking out of the toilet bowl, as if there is something terribly unsanitary about the behavior. The reality is that the water sitting in the toilet is the same water you shower in, wash your hands in, cook your food in. All water pumped into a building from the municipal water supply is cleaned and treated by the same thorough and effective processes (Filtration, sedimentation, chlorine and fluoride treatment…) regardless of the end use. In this way, the sanitation system is built to be terribly wasteful: we dispose of our waste in clean drinking water, and lots of it.

One home decor designer, Real Goods, has developed a new approach to the modern toilet. There is a sink built atop the water basin. This is to allow the soapy water, which otherwise is washed down the drain and into the sewer system, to collect in the basin to be used the next time the toilet is flushed. This multipurpose use will save you endless gallons (or however often you wash your hands). The sink works by diverting clean water into an auto on/off chrome gooseneck faucet. The assembly is easily installed without tools onto the top of existing toilets (no, a plumber does not need to install a new toilet bowl).

On top of everything else, the toilet is certainly an innovative change to classic piece of furniture.

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