Cash for Crappers part II
• .Buy a new toilet, get a rebate, save the planet, and save some water. Or do we? I spoke with someone who is affiliated with the Wastewater Department and he told a different tale. Here in the greater Tucson area, our waste-water system runs on gravity. In order to take advantage of the “gravity system”, there actually needs to be a certain amount of water to keep “things moving along downstream”. You get the idea. The challenge that Wastewater is having is, “not enough flow” in certain parts of town. So in order to give the city of Tucson a high colonic (I’ve got a great mental picture right now), the city will dispatch crews to flush the problem areas out with, that’s right, water
