We have been showing toilets with sinks built into the lids of the tanks for years, including home-made and aftermarket plastic versions. Now Caroma gives us a dual flush toilet that they claim will save a family of four 30,000 gallons of water per year over an older toilet.

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Water is pretty precious in Los Angeles, but the pipes are getting old and a lot of them leak, sometimes for quite a while, undermining the pavement above. Often the road collapses under its own weight, but this time it got a little help- from a 42,000 pound fire truck.

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