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How do US toilets work? It should be independent of water pressure, there is a tank of water that gets prefilled, right?
it is. he's just full of shit. no one is flushing more than once unless there's something wrong with their own plumbing. this is a non issue he's made up
It was a complaint about 25 years ago when the first iteration came out. There was a full King of the Hill episode about it. Since then they refined the low flow toilets to be as good as the older style.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J4f0MeoV5pQ&pp=ygUga2luZyBvZiB0aGUgaGlsbCBsb3cgZmxvdyB0b2lsZXQ%3D