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Toilet cistern size. My dearly beloved, life's little helpmate decided last year that we were going to replace two of our bathrooms. Their failing was that the porcelain was coloured and the
taps were gold. Yes, real 1990s stuff that someday will be desireable antiques, but currently causes loss of face when "the girls" ( I call them the coven) come to drink tea and eat cake.

So rather than do the sensible thing and wait for them to become valuable antique, the old ones had to go and be replaced buy boring white. But in the going we come a cropper with the crapper ( sorry - couldnt resist) and the latest eco freak regulations. The regs say the cistern has to be no more than 6 litres capacity. The objective is to save water - presumably no one bothered to check how much water we have all over the place here in Wales. Instead they have assumed that we are in the Altacama.

And what has been the result? Well the 6 litres dictates a much smaller size of the poolwith the consequence that any time we go poo, there are skidmarks on the toilet sides [color:#FF0000]or bottom. So first flush and then out comes the brush and after that a second flush. This uses 12 litres of water rather than the 6 - and thats a 33% increase compred to what the previous 1991 specified 9 litre cistern used for its single flush.

Maybe if we had replaced our politicians with lavatory attendants we would have had more practical and sensible regulations. Instead our regulations are ( yes you know its coming) a load of crap!.

There is a pattern isnt there? Whether its the subsidies to foreign power companies not to generate power or to farmers not to grow food, or the car exhaust regs that create VW style issues, or the ridiculously expensive nuclear plants, most of the goody two shoes eco regulations have been stupidly badly thought through.