While toilet bowls are designed such that the contents are supposed to flush downward, scientists have known for decades that small particles – including those from water, waste and toilet paper – can ...

Consider the 140,000 times you're likely to flush a toilet over a lifetime, and it's easy to see why toilets guzzle nearly 30 percent of a home's water use. Replacing older, inefficient toilets ...

Most are single-flush models, though the top-rated Glacier Bay model is a dual-flush toilet, meaning you can use minimal water for most flushes. All of the models below are WaterSense certified by ...

"By making dramatic visual images of this process ... Caused by Aerosol Contamination of Surfaces after Flushing a Domestic Toilet." Journal of Applied Microbiology, vol. 99, no. 2, 2005, pp.