Well, America's Finest Blog has been away for bit. Sorry.
Tonight America's Finest Blog returns with a tale of unforeseen consequences, the story of the low flush toilet. Once upon a time a toilet held 3.5 gallons of flushing power, the unenlightened people of earth flushed lots of water down the drain, they were happy and the drains were happy too (more on that later). Then came the 1990's, guilt consumed the enlightened peoples of the world and said, change must come. It indeed came, not in the form of catchy sayings like, "If it is yellow then let it mellow, if it is brown flush it down." Instead in the idea that a toilet should use less water. The results a lot of backed up toilets. That lead to boom times for plunger manufactures, lots of need for engineers to create the perfect low flow toilet and a federal law that said you're going to like your crappy new toilet because we've banded you old toilet, oh and we suggest you buy a plunger. Luckily, instead of engineering better bridges and electric cars our engineers created low flow toilets that have to some degree flushed our memories of high flow toilets down an improved drain. In fact the reduced flow toilets have saved cities like San Francisco 20 million gallons of water a year. Super duper right? Well, yes...
Most sewer systems across our fair land and other lands not so fair, were designed to accommodate high flow water systems. Apparently the sewer loves waste. The new low flow toilets and shower heads (remember the full flow shower head?) have left the sewers full of sludge, as there isn't enough water to wash it all down. Makes me happy to be on a septic system...
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