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Switching to a low-flow toilet could help you save 8,000 gallons per year. Here's how these advanced cans work and what to know before you buy one.

We're now moving to high-efficiency toilets (HET)." HETs use at least 20 percent less water than the low-flow variety.

Toilet rebates of up to $100 are available for the first time to Pasco County Utilities customers for each high-volume toilet replaced with a low-flow model.

To help save water, Fort Worth gives residents a free low-flow toilet. The toilets save people about 13,000 gallons of water a year.

He would then, naturally, appreciate the quality of non-thinking that went into the design of low-flow toilets now mandated by federal law.

Early low-flow toilets (roughly from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s) were famously bad. The pages of Consumer Reports had plenty of references to their poor performance.

When Kevin built his home in 1993, he installed three new middle-of-the- line low-volume toilets. The darn things never did work properly, requiring multiple flushes to deliver the package.

And they must replace all inefficient fixtures in a room in which they are making other improvements. Low-flow toilets cost as little as $100 and can surpass $800.

Since 1992, the government's mandated low-flow toilets for all new bathrooms -- but do they really help the environment?