How Much Water Does It Take To Flush A Toilet?

A podcast with attitude that hits different. Hosted by Joey, Garnt, and Connor

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[crashbandicoot]

Could've just poured like 5L to a bucket and then force flushed it by dumping it all into the toilet bowl. That's how we usually do it here where I live (Philippines), granted we're a third-world country but hey we're saving up on water.

Oh and btw, not EVERYONE does this. We're not monsters, a lot of places and homes use normal flushing too; but yeah, as Connor clearly stated, it uses more water.

[RevereShin]

Nah, you don't have enough water, you just need VELOCITY!!

[SpiderJAAM]

This is why you put the water on a big bucket and throw the water on the toilet bowl and not the water tank.

[sunkenprms]

they cut the best part, which is that Connor also used the bathroom after it was already clogged, therefore needing to flush TWO at once (and yes, he used the bucket method)

[Vis_BSG]

I guess you could say... that was a shitload of water

[ubermaster]

"It was the size, length, girth, circumference of a Pringles can... Maybe a bit bigger."

[christyclarissemercier]

The man the math problems warned us about

[GilTheKing-yxgz]

You can pour it into the bowl and force flush it at the cost of much less water.

[LaggyCannon]

Being Zimbabwean and watching this....noob...we have water shortages every week. We live like this. It only takes a small bucket (5 litres) or so

[k_tubbs]

This is why when I was a kid living 2 hours south of the Canadian border, we kept gallon jugs of water. A) we lived in the middle of nowhere. B) If the water goes out, you still need to flush, or wash your hands, or shower or bursh your teeth or do the dishes, etc etc. We had to put in a well ourselves. So especially in the winter, that water was at risk of freezing, and there wasn't always something we could do about it right away. To this day, I keep at least some clean water in my house just stashed away.

[chronicmonkey]

The alternative. Leaving the main house to go to the long drop in the out house at 2am in the middle of winter.
Choices. You have them.

[VBandit]

First worlder realizing the staggering amount of water toilets use

[blumoogle]

My biggest surprise, is that a normal toilet only uses like 5l, and people usually put a brick in the tank to reduce the amount of water used, and it still works, like, 95% of the time with one flush.

[miscme]

In my summer cottage when the water doesn't work always, it usually takes a third of a regular bucket to get a big number 2 with lots of paper flushed down. Here it helps that a bucket can produce a larger flow of water than a water bottle.

[TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive]

Just use a bucket, the valves and pipe from the cistern to the bowel slows down the flow rate of the water. While more convient it means you need more water to get the job done.

If you are ever out of water or the cistern is broken and not filling just fill a bucket and dump it in as quickly as you can without splashing water everwhere.

[evangorski]

You can add a large brick or rock to the tank to artificially make it a low flow toilet, might have more clogs but you’ll be saving a significant portion of that water🤷‍♂️

[garden]

I thought he meant how much water you need to drink to make a shit.

[herweirdoo]

The box that your flush tank comes in usually mentions the capacity of the tank.

[soopcan]

Alright Frylock, we don’t need another super toilet with invisibility cloaks

[Mothball_]

If you pour the water in the bowl and not the tank it will flush with like 2 bottles. Also if you take the water and put it in a pitcher or bucket and toss the water in with some force then it will flush even better and more likely work.