[bpp]

Your toilet analogy is partially true but is incomplete. Toilets manufactured immediately after the regulations went into effect are in fact less effective. However, the industry innovated, improving previously inefficient bowl designs and creating other inventions that improve performance. Toilets manufactured today are at least as effective as those created before the regulations, and consume fewer natural resources (no small matter here in California where we're staring at drought again).

Regulations may impose a cost, but they can often spur innovation and economic growth as well.

[coolso]

> Toilets manufactured today are at least as effective as those created before the regulations

I replaced my toilet with a new model 2 years ago. Was it the best of the best, no, but neither was my old one. Use of any amount of toilet paper with the new one = a mandatory double flush, every single time. Every so often a #1 with no TP will require a double flush as well. Yes I'm serious.

[kbenson]

You've explained that you have a broken toilet, not that regulations made a bad toilet. If your toilet can't even cycle a liquid through enough to even appear clean, you've got other problems.

[coolso]

It cycles the liquid just fine; it's getting rid of 100% of the bubbles that urinating sometimes creates (typically when it's concentrated, e.g., in the morning) that it has trouble with.

[pwinnski]

Your toilet is definitely broken. This is not a regulation problem.

Seriously, that is not normal behavior for a new toilet.

[Izkata]

It is normal behavior. The low-flow toilets seem to have been built assuming all waste is sitting at the bottom, but toilet paper can be held floating at the top due to surface tension. The first flush breaks that, then the second flush gets rid of it.

[atomical]

Bubble removal. That's a new one.

[TYPE_FASTER]

We've replaced two toilets in the last two years, no problems like this with either.

[patentatt]

Do you really think all toilets work this way? Like, everyone else in the entire country has that same experience? You bought a shitty (pun intended) product, it has nothing to do with the boogeyman of ‘regultion.’