How to Conserve Toilet Water in Your Bathroom

Home improvement expert Danny Lipford explains how replacing older toilets with water saving models, including dual flush toilets, can save water.

When tracking down waste to think green in your home, the trails should leave you straight to the bathroom. It should come as no surprise that toilets are the biggest water wasters in the house. There are more than 300 million toilets in the United States and millions of them leak, each wasting up to 50 gallons every single day. Millions more have tanks with a three to five gallon capacity. If you want to start saving waters, switch those old models out for the new 1.6 gallon toilets. In that one move, you’ll be saving at least 50% on the water your toilet uses. Another idea is to replace your old toilet with a dual flush design that uses less than a gallon to flush liquid waste. If a new toilet isn’t in the budget, there are kits now available on the market that will allow you to convert your existing toilet to a water saver.