Water Saving Tip: Wash Your Hands in The Toilet
Yes, you read the title right. And no, this isn’t a joke.
We have one of these in our basement bathroom because there is a toilet but no sink (yet). I’ve thought about putting one in the main bathroom upstairs, but the toilet tank is not the right shape (it’s too rounded).
What Is It?
The Toilet Lid Sink is just what it sounds like – a sink that sits on top of your toilet’s water tank. But contrary to what you might think, the water is clean enough to drink. It doesn’t even come from the toilet’s tank / resevoir, but intercepts the water from the pipes BEFORE it drains down into the tank. It is the same quality water you’d get out of the tap from the sink sitting right next to your toilet.
The downside is that you don’t get warm water. On a cold winter morning, nobody wants to wash their hands in ice cold water, but in the Summer it’s cool and refreshing.
Combine the toilet lid sink with a water limiter (you could buy something like this or just use a brick) and you’ll be saving about 300 gallons of water every month, according to most figures on water use.
Build Your Own Toilet Lid Sink
The Instructables.com website has a great step-by-step tutorial on building your own toilet-lid sink. There is also a video on YouTube showing the finished product.
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