I want to publicise an idea I had while reconstructing our home, it will save loads of water and is really simple, and best of all free. Introducing: Rock Bog

Convert one of your toilets to a Rock Bog, a liquid only toilet, by putting a large stone in the bottom of it, then reducing the amount of flush by stones/bricks/water hippo in the cistern so that a clean 2 litre flush is achieved.

Background:
There is a problem with our drainage and water connection, which means that our indoor toilet is suitable for liquid only, and I have to bring in rain water to flush it (yes, obviously very inconvenient, and not a realistic alternative for our necessities), however I noticed that we were using huge amounts of water for flushing because the volume of water in the bottom of the toilet is so big, meaning that you had to go fill up the bucket for flushing several times a day. I know that there is an Austrian university which is developing a liquid only toilet which does not have a big u bend so only a little water is necessary to flush waste water through. My idea was to put some biggish stones in the loo to reduce the volume of water there. It's worked. I now need only a couple of litres to flush, rather than 5 or 10. The rocks also provide a visual reminder not to put anything other than liquids down the loo. I was thinking that this would work in households with more than one toilet because you could designate one to be liquids only, put yet more stones in the cistern to cut down the amount of water being flushed, but still keep the water clean. It would just mean that people would have to get into the habit of using different toilets for different occasions.

Any of you willing to give this a go!!! This is the second time I've told anyone about it (it's also posted on the green money saving expert forum!), so let me know what you think.

Hmm... an architect blaming the girls for the queue!!! Cheeky. Existing women's urinals, where you use some kind of device to direct your wee haven't taken the world by storm. For me, it would definitely have to be a sit down affair!

Posted By: Novy MlynFor me, it would definitely have to be a sit down affair!

Wonder why, exactly? what is it that makes boys willing to wave their willies in public, when even in these unrepressed times girls won't be seen by each other doing something much less conspicuous (I imagine, not knowing quite how girls' urinals work)

This idea is having a long gestation! Been around for donkey's years, but still not a popular product, so my female accomplice claims.

Whoever chose the background/text colours should be taken outside and sho...

..wn charts of good and bad colour combinations. This one is terrible!

so did anyone make a rock bog?

We've been using one since I made the original post & it's been fine. Aesthetic, even.