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Here's another great tip from BobVila.com.

Did you know that you could save 20 percent on your water bill just by replacing your toilet? Most conventional toilets use 3 1/2 gallons or more of water. And the U.S. flushes nearly 5 billion gallons of this precious resource every day.

But this is the dawn of a new generation. Low-flush toilets use 1.6 gallons per flush, and now high-efficiency toilets (or HETS) using 1.28 gallons per flush are fast becoming the standard. They’re a little more expensive, but in some thirsty places like California, homeowners can get big rebates for replacing their old toilets—the job can pay for itself in a couple of years.

To make sure they’re up to any challenge, low-flush toilets have undergone some serious design changes to the bowl, trap and water flow. Some have pressure-assisted flushing, a glossier trapway finish to reduce drag and even a dual flush option: two levels of water use for liquid or solid waste.

Replacing your old toilet’s a great idea, but if you can’t do it right away, there are other ways to conserve. Make sure your toilet doesn’t run unnecessarily by keeping the flush mechanism in good repair. To reduce the amount of water needed to fill the tank, fill a plastic soda bottle with sand, cap it and set it inside the tank to take up some of the volume.

And it’s hard to believe, but if everyone flushed just one fewer time, we’d save the equivalent of a small lake each day!

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