Toilets
Federal law requires all residential toilets sold in the United States to use no more than 1 3/5 gallons of water per flush. Before this legislation, conventional toilets used 3 2/5 gallons of water per flush. Find the amount of water saved in one year by a family flushing the toilet 22 times daily if one conventional toilet is replaced with a new low-flow one. (1 year = 365 days)
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