high Efficiency Toilets

Rebate Program

Toilet rebate programs consist of replacing high water use toilets to low water use toilets. Although the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) is the most active program, there are other agencies throughout California that run their own programs as well
The MWD program was initially suspended a in September 21,2009, the program has been officially re-instated for Southern California. This includes commercial, industrial, institutional and multi family water consumers.

In order to successfully participate in the Toilet Rebate Program there are certain requirements that must be met.. These requirements differ from each rebate program. Some programs require that the toilets that are replaced must be a 3.5 gallons per flush (gpf) or greater. And other programs require that the existing toilets must be a 1.6 gallons per flush or greater. Furthermore, the newly installed toilets must be a High-Efficiency Toilet (HET) and must be on the qualified list that is located on the MWD website. A High Efficiency toilet flushes at 1.28 gallons per flush and flushes at 20 percent below a 1.6 gpf toilet. In addition, to qualify, complexes must have a total of 5 units or more, or be represented by an HOA or Property Management Company with a combined total of 5 units or more.

Process

Alpha Energy Solutions provides clients with a turn-key service. This means that AES will assist the customer through every step of the toilet rebate program. Alpha Energy will fully devote their time in order to assure that the client successfully completes the Toilet Rebate Program.


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Saving Tips (Why?)

What are some benefits of WaterSense high-efficiency toilets?

    • 1. Saving Water
a. High Efficiency toilets (HETs) were designed for water conservation.  Using a high efficiency unit in place of 1.6 gallon flush units can save up to 2,000 gallons of water each year for a family of four. Savings will be greater in climates where water is in shorter supply.

  • b. The facts below shows how much water a typical family of four can save in a year, based on the type of toilet in the household, if it replaces them with WaterSense high-efficiency models.

    i. A post-1980 model using 3.5 gallons per flush saves over 16,000 gallons / year
    A post 1990 model using 1.6 gallons per flush saves over 2,000 gallons / year
    • 2.Capable of flushing more waste
a. After the performance troubles of first generation low-flow toilets of the late 1990’s, concerns of needing to double and triple flush water-saving toilets have haunted the toilet industry. The U.S. EPA’s Water Sense program has set high performance standards to cast aside these concerns. Therefore, Map testing of toilets was developed to indetify how well popular toilet models perform bulk removal using a realistic test media and to grade each toilet model based on this performance. Design advances have enabled Water Sense labeled toilets to save water with no trade-off in flushing power. In fact, many outperform standard toilets in consumer testing.

b. There is very little correlation between the amount of water flushed and the effectiveness of a toilet. In testing, some 3.5 gallon per flush toilets cannot consistently flush 250 grams of waste, while some 1.1 gallon toilets reliably flush a full 1,000 grams. All High Efficieny toilets are required to have a minimum of 500 Map
    • 3.Actual Savings
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