Flushed water does not get shot out into space.

It just returns to the sea, the air or the ground to be tapped again later.

This is the ultimate success of environmentalists - to convince them that water is a scarce commodity. It is everywhere on the earth and can be tapped right out of the air.

People are mostly sheep and do not really think it all out.

Saudi Arabia has no problem with desalinization facilities - in the US there is just a complete lack of commitment to longterm solutions. It is much easier to worry when the snowfall isn't up to par - and cry "water shortage" than to spend a few bucks and solve the problem in California and elsewhere, once and for all.

Make criminals out of lawn-waterers... make everyone have to breathe in their own feces as they poop into a tiny puddle!

That's not conservation - it is the toilet manufacturers successfully making a fortune while manipulating rabid environmentalists who have little understanding of science.

Low flows lead to clogged pipes encrusted with you know what.

I have my low-flows rigged to empty the whole reservoir by slowing down the return of the handle (about the water equivalent of the old flush)

Conservation is fine - but energy is indestructible. Water is one of things we least need to conserve. Trees, plants and animals are far more real conservation issues than is water.

Best wishes,

SDAI-Tech1