Stanford Goes Dual-Flush

Okay, not quite. The entire Stanford University campus hasn’t gone dual-flush, but a single building has: The Environment and Energy Building, amongst a host of other environmentally friendly moves, has installed dual-flush toilets in its bathrooms. What does that mean exactly? Little flushes for pee, and big flushes for poo.

In theory this should be most useful in the women’s bathrooms, since men should be using urinals for most of their peeing, but we all end up taking a pee in a stall from time to time.

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