Today we're all concerned about water quality and water conservation. Now, more homes are being built with that in mind.
The new technology includes low flow faucets and dual flush toilets. While others boast instant hot water systems.
“One of the real neat features of this house is the dual flush toilet. For those people not familiar with that, it has a two-position flush to produce two different volumes of water. Basically, the one stage uses the lower volume of water and the two stages is for additional water with a net savings of thousands of gallons a year by using that appropriately,” said Bob Krell.
One of the other things you can do to save water in your house, go with lower flow faucets, lower flow devices for showers and bathroom faucets. Typically you stay away from that in your kitchen because you want full pressure for dishwashing but in the other faucets you don't notice the effect and again you can cut a substantial amount of water usage.
Today we're all concerned about water quality and water conservation. Now, more homes are being built with that in mind. Terry Ettinger has more.
This is an instant hot water system. Notice there's no big tank and another big difference, very little copper piping, mostly pvc pipe.
“It's no different, essentially, than a hot water heater but in a smaller version so we're heating the water very close to where we're going to use it. As soon as the faucet comes on, the device senses that and begins to heat the water either with electricity or with a gas-type unit and the coils in heated in a matter of seconds where it comes out of the faucet at the temperature you're hoping,” said Paul Crovella, SUNY ESF.