Contrary to what the president of the United States said Friday, there have been major advances in toilet technology in recent decades
Photo: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images I’m sure what you were waiting for this Friday afternoon was an implicit announcement from the president that he takes enormous shits.
President Trump’s attitudes and fixations often seem stuck in the 1980s, so perhaps it’s a step forward that he issued this very 1990s gripe. What the president said is not true anymore. But ‘90s kids know it used to be true — okay, not literally true that you had to flush ten times, but true enough in the sense that the first generation of low-flush toilets, introduced when the regulation capping toilet flushes at 1.
Historically, toilets have relied on gravity: Gravity pulls water from the tank, into the bowl, out through the trapway and into the sewer pipes. As the water flows out, it pulls waste along with it. But as buyers of first-generation low-flush toilets learned the hard way, a smaller amount of water may not generate a powerful enough flush to remove all waste, especially if you have produced a lot of waste.
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