Video of the week - From the Propel Green Products Expo, Kohler explains how to save water.

At the Green Expo Kohler was showing 3 ways to save water as part of their Save Water America campaign. The easiest and least expensive - about $5 to $10 is to change the faucet aerator to a more efficient one. Kohler has developed an aerator mesh grid that allows air to be mixed with the solid stream of water. This results in a stream that looks and feels as powerful as the one that uses 2.2 gpm (gallons per minute) but it’s more efficient, using just 1.5 gpm. That’s saves about 30% of the water normally used. Although Kohler makes them to fit all their various faucets, you can find similar aerators for standard faucets. Kohler has also designed a line of low-flow showerheads that use 1.75 gpm. The standard flow rate of most showers is 2.5 gallons per minute. So cutting the flow rate to 1.75 gpm again gives you a 30% water savings. You won’t feel the difference because the Kohler showerhead has been designed to offer full body water coverage and feeling of a powerful shower. Another water saving is to install a high-efficiency toilet that flushes with 1.28 gallons per flush or less. Kohler says 50% of home toilets in the U.S. consume 3.5 gpf. While the sink aerator and the showerhead are easy add-ons, the technology in their toilet is only available as a complete unit. By the way, it turns out the toilet on display at the Kohler display was for demo purposes only. Opps!

Kohler web page on how to save water:

http://www.us.kohler.com/savewater/how/landing.htm

Where to buy kohler products: www.kohler.com/wheretobuy.

The lowest price I could find online for a Kohler low flow Aerator was $5.50 for their Karbon Series Kitchen Faucets. However there are a lot of other low volume aerators available. Conservation Mart sells them for as low as 99 cents. There’s a $5 minimum order, so you could share them with your friends. (I have not bought anything here, however.

http://www.conservationmart.com/c-13-faucet-aerators.aspx

They were not showing the brand new Kohler Numi Smart Toilet which costs about $6400, but you can see it here: http://kohler.com/numi/#video.html

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