In its own facilities, Facebook has reduced water consumption with dual-flush toilets and motion-sensor faucets.
Now, that corporation is building a new 3, 000-room resort, office and retail complex called City Center and piloting a number of innovative "green" features, including state-of-the-art low-level flush toilets.
Then we were escorted back to the tents, hot water bottles already warming the soft, king-sized sheets (with hot showers, flush toilets and colonial-inspired furniture, you are far from roughing it here).
Sure, a comfortable bed, business amenities, and a substantial continental breakfast may trump dual-flush toilets, discounted hybrid parking, and vintage furnishings when it comes to booking a place to crash during work-centric trips.
Standard green features in each home include LED lighting, recycled glass countertops, a high-efficiency water heater, water-conserving fixtures including dual-flush toilets, FSC-certified bamboo flooring, EnergyStar appliances, zero-VOC paints, finishes, and adhesives, a whole-house ventilation system, low-E windows, high levels of insulation, a fully recyclable, heat-deflecting cool roof, exterior wood siding and decking made from FSC-certified cedar, and much more.
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Now we have no water at all, no shower or bath, can't even flush the toilets.
We've been told to use buckets as we can't flush the toilets in case any contaminated water leaks out.
We had to leave our office a few weeks ago because there wasn't enough water to flush the toilets.
The new building will reuse rain water to flush the toilets and a solar electric generating system will be installed on the roof.
According to the Associated Press, the synchronised flush will now take place at the same time twice a week - on Mondays and Thursdays - though residents will of course be able to flush their toilets at other times too.
Typically, drugs get into the water supply when people flush unneeded medication down toilets or pass trace amounts in urine.
The BBC's Thabo Kunene, in Bulawayo, says that most houses in the city, even in townships, do possess toilets which flush, unlike in many African countries.
Did it really make sense for the feds to decree (in a 1992 law supported by the first Bush Administration) that newly installed toilets use no more than 1.6 gallons of water per flush?
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