Canadian Lab Names Toilets That Work

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• Water Wasting

If you’ve ever lived with a water-saver toilet, you know they don’t always work as well as they should. In fact, many of the original models didn’t even save water very effectively. That was what got Bill Gauley into the toilet performance rating business back in the mid-1990s. Out of curiosity he measured the amount of water actually consumed by a new toilet he bought in the 1990s. Finding that it used four liters more than the claimed 6 liters per flush, he took a closer look at other toilets.

Bill Gauley's findings proved many of the so-called ‘water-saver’ toilets on the market:

• Used 50% to 75% more water than claimed.
• Delivered the kind of reluctant flushing that makes parents furious with their teenage sons.

With funding from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) as well as both Canadian and American municipalities, Gauley’s Ontario-based company, Veritec Consulting, influences toilet manufacturers and environmentally-conscious municipal leaders across North America for one simple reason:

• Veritec findings are absolutely reliable, shining the light of truth on real-world toilet performance and giving consumers the unbiased information they need to select toilets that work and actually save water. With information like this, the good old forces of supply and demand do the rest.

Water Wasting Champions of the Globe

• Canada is one of the few developed nations that still allow sales of water-wasting 13 litre toilets.
• They’ve been outlawed for at least a decade in the United States, Europe, South America and Australia.
• Canada has no excuse. And while it’s disappointing that our governments have taken only baby steps to reverse our dubious distinction as water wasting champions of the globe, at least our private sector is leading the way. And they’re doing it with soybean paste.

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