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A toilet is the most essential feature of a bathroom. At the most basic level, a toilet is composed of a bowl and a tank or cistern. The material that is used in making the toilet bowl is porcelain. The tank/cistern of the toilet is what holds the water and from where the water is released when the toilet is flushed. The height of the toilet varies but for the bowl there are only two configurations and these are the elongated bowl configuration and the standard bowl configuration. Regarding the design; toilet designs range from contemporary toilet design to traditional toilet design.

The flushing ability of a toilet is determined by the size of the valve hole which connects the tank to the bowl. The bigger the size of the hole, the higher the volume of water that can be released into the toilet and thus the more effective the flushing action.

A toilet’s flushing ability is also determined by the number of holes in the rim that are involved in the releasing of the water into the toilet bowl – the larger the number of holes, the more effective the swirling action. This directly translates into more effective bowl cleaning. And in this day and age when everyone is being called upon to be more conscious of the environment in which we live, the challenge for manufacturers is to come up with toilets that conserve as much water as possible. So the more effective the flushing action is, using as little water as possible, the better.