http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered Fresh culture daily. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:20:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/10/are-we-pissing-away-our-water/ http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/10/are-we-pissing-away-our-water/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:20:01 +0000 Jeff McIntire-Strasburg http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=26139

Yep... so much so that US Environmental Protection Agencies WaterSense program (an ENERGY STAR for water) has addressed the issue by making the flushing urinal the first commercial product for which it's developed standards. According to the EPA, "Approximately 65 percent of the estimated 12 million urinals in the United States are old and inefficient. While the current federal standard for commercial urinals is 1.0 gallon per flush (gpf ), some older urinals use as much as five times that amount!"]]> http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/10/are-we-pissing-away-our-water/feed/ 2