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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

Found this at:
http://time.blogs.com/eye_on_science/

Toilet of Genius
Easily available fresh water is already in short supply in many  
places in the world, and global warming combined with population  
growth will just continue to make things worse. So anyone who comes  
up with a brilliant water-saving idea is doing a huge service for the  
planet.
It turns out that just such an idea is old news in water-scarce  
Australia--but complete news to me, and maybe to you.   The idea  
is....how to put it delicately?....well, some toilet visits need a  
lot of flushing power, and others not so much. But all the toilets  
I've ever seen use a lot of water no matter what. Except for low- 
flush toilets, which use a tiny amount, often with, shall we say,  
incomplete results.
The solution, invented by a man named Bruce Thompson in 1982,  is  
obvious in retrospect, but brilliant nonetheless: the dual-flush  
toilet. It has two flush strengths. If you've got a #1 kind of thing  
going on, you press button #1. For #2, #2.
OK, so I get excited by strange things. But seriously, this  
technology saves millions of gallons of water every year in  
Australia. In fact, all new installations require it. It's about time  
Americans started getting smart too. Thompson's company, Caroma,  
still sells these ingenious devices.


You will note that I do not reveal the name of the "senior writer" of  
this piece. I do so out of courtesy, so as not to reveal one who is  
so ignorant of the possibility of the obvious answer: the NO-FLUSH  
toilet, dammit!

I have written to the author to amend his knowledge.

I feel so much better now.
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clhw wrote:

> Lynda -- please explain how they are used.
> Is there a web site for this?
> Thanks!
> Lynn
>
>  
>
> > the iris will serve
> > two purposes, the eye which needs some beauty for peach and serenity AND I
> > weave baskets and iris are great for use in basketweaving.  - Lynda
> >    
I don't know if this is how Lynda does it, but here is one site 
explaining how to use them. 
http://www.angelfire.com/bc/pineneedle/plaitedstart.html

Best wishes,
Melody