Toilet
flushing is the single largest user of household water,
30-40%, up to 90% for offices.
(The Interflush™ can save 47% of this).
Each
person flushes the toilet about six times a day, older
people flush the toilet more than 6 times a day.
Fitting
an Interflush™ can save the average household of
2.4 people,flushing the toilet 14 times per day, around
£70 per year, 27 tonnes.14 week payback time for
DIY installation. Households and businesses flushing more
than 14 times per day will save proportionatley more.
Each
person uses about 150 litres of water every day. About
60 litres of this is for toilet flushing.
The
UK population is 59.2 million (2002)·
Water
use has increased by 70% since 1970
You
pay for water twice, as it enters your property and as
it leaves it.
To
provide and dispose of each tonne or cubic metre of water
uses 0.905 Kwh of electricity and produces 0.404 Kg of
Carbon Dioxide.
A
clause of the new Water Bill gives Water Companies the
power to make the fitting of water meters compulsory.
Massive
water price increases have already been agreed for the
next five years.
The
worst UK drought in 50 years is predicted for 2006.
Water
debt in the UK is nearly £1bn. Almost one
in five families owe money to their water company
and the water industry is the single largest user
of the court system in the UK with almost 250,000
claims per year.
