WHAT???? NO! NO! AND NO!
"while affording the standard comforts that we Poopers have come to enjoy on our porcelain thrones."

"comfort"??? those things are gonna be as comfortable as these crappy toilets with a tank - the only acceptable toilets are the pressure ones, hooked up to plumbing pipes

This damn planet is 70% water! It's only a matter of learning how to make it usable/ recycle more efficiently - let those 'environmentalists' work on that

TSR -- don't be so ignorant.

If technology can make something just as good as you're used to, without as much waste, why have such a knee-jerk reaction? Why be such a luddite? As long as your logs go down the toilet, why do you care how much water it uses?

Technology never gets it right the first time. Would you wish to go back to 1980s computers? The first toilets used 6 gallons of water because they didn't know how to do it any bette4r. Now they're finally figuring out how to do it better. This is progress. Why would you be so reactionary as to stand in the way?

"If technology can make something just as good as you're used to" that's the thing - I don't like those gravity flush toilets - so it's not something that I'm used to (I give you the courtesy of reading your posts before I respond - try to do the same)

This isn't gravity flush!!! It's pressure assisted. Give the author the courtesy of reading the article!

Reaper: I'm not clear on your objection. Please explain "it's not something I'm used to." Are you saying that you're not used to using standard, gravity-flush porcelain toilets that you sit down on? And so therefore you're objecting to my statement that PoopReporters have come to enjoy the comfort of such plumbing fixtures?

If so, please understand that I was just trying to make a quippy remark. Sometimes I forget that this Website is veiwed worldwide, and that many veiwers do not use the same fixtures as I do. Sorry if the closing line struck you the wrong way.

The crux of the article simply is that Sloan Valve was praised for developing a device that flushes waste with one gallon of water more efficiently that the U.S. federally required 1.6 gallon per flush standard equipment, and that saves drinking water that arrives in our bathrooms via the same pipelines. This advancement in technology is especially beneficial in areas where drinking water is particularly scarce or expensive to produce or recyle.

Regards, TH.

TH,
I see - I should've been more clear myself. Yes, being used to the wonderful pressurized jet toilets, I objected and proposed that research be directed on more efficient ways to make the planet's water drinkable (as well as to recycling it) - but, again, I should've explained myself better instead of my "knee jerk responce" lol

peace, TSR

p.s. - if everyone in the world took the time to explain themselves as good as you do - I think we'd have less conflict throughout the world. Thanks!
Looking forward to your next post

These toilets are good in the sense that they conserve water, they also work better that conventional toilets. The downside to "pressure flush toilets" is: they are to noisy, if they do manage to get clogged, they make an even worse mess, and they are very expensive. I personally do not like them. There is a "velocity flush" toilet on the market. I have not seen many of them. They only use .1, yes .1 more gallons of water than the pressure toilet. They are about $100.00+ less expensive, and a lot quieter. I am all for the velocity flush.
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Jammin' lo'flo's since 1977.

I have installed a Gerber Pressure assisted toilet at work and it is amazing. It's water consumption is reduced (the toilet it replaced was 55 years old), but that's not what's so cool. It has a voracious flushing sound and has never failed to flush ANYTHING. I bet I could flush a nerf football down it.

hmmm, last I checked virtually all toilets have used gravity flush since the days when they were called water closets. Unless of course you happen to live in a third world country where toilets are holes in the ground that don't require flushing.

As for making sea water drinkable, that technology exists. I believe it's called reverse osmosis. However if you care to know most of that water that is so plentyful is also so full of chemicals that even reverse osmosis leaves a bit to be desired.

The real problem is waste and poor resource management.

Pressure assist is a great idea for land based toilets that use drinking water. Boats just pump in some sea water and then pump it back out so you can drink it the next time you swim in the ocean.