Friday, November 9, 2007

If It's Yellow, Let It Mellow - If It's Brown, Flush It Down

Earlier this week, crews put up signs in the University of Georgia's bathrooms asking people not to flush "if it's yellow" and to leave the handle-pulling to attendants, who will do the job for the estimated 93,000 people at Saturday's game.

It's part of the university's "Every Drop Counts" water conservation effort in the drought that's struck Georgia and much of the Southeast.

The university is considering replacing all of the stadium's old toilets, which use 3.5 gallons of water per flush, with new ones that use less than half that amount, 1.6 gallons, per flush, said Arthur Johnson, associate athletic director for internal operations.

But two old-fashioned trough urinals that have constant running water will be open beneath the west end stands during the game against Troy University. "We've got a lot of fans in that area that would need to use the restroom and it would be impractical to ask them to go to another part of the stadium," he said.

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