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MaP Your Way Around Clogged Toilets

To flush the likes of this economy, it takes a high performance toilet, independently tested to remove at least 1,000 grams of solid waste on just 1.6 gallons of water or less.

That’s more than 2.2 pounds of stuff you really do not want to be plunging.

Maximum Performance Testing (MaP) is an independent report of toilet flushing performance developed by John Koehler and Veritec Consulting.  The 15th edition was just published last week, available free through the Alliance for Water Efficiency.

The EPA requires that WaterSense labeled toilets be able to flush a minimum of 350 grams in the MaP test.  At present, MaP test is the main, if not only, independently recognized test designed to gauge this rather important parameter.

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How much is 1,000 grams?  It is equal to 2.2 pounds.

How much is 2.2 pounds? It is equal to:
*    Two 16 oz steaks
*    Eight quarter-pound hamburgers
*    66.6 chicken nuggets
*    The difference between zipping your jeans standing up and lying down
*    Probably more than your current toilet can flush without clogging
*    Way more than you will ever “output” in a single visit to the toilet, no matter what you did last night

The test is called Maximum Performance Testing or the MaP test.  Download a free copy of the latest MaP test from by John Koehler and Veritec Consulting and see how many grams your toilet can flush cleanly and completely.

Scores are a general barometer of a toilet’s ability to remove bulk media.  You can figure out what “bulk media” means.  The MaP test protocol was designed to closely replicate “real world demand,”  incorporating soybean paste as a test media and measuring how many grams can be flushed up to 1,000 grams or 2.2 pounds.

If you think that’s a tasteless mental image, you are correct.  It’s supposed to be.   With apologies to the geniuses in marketing, we haven’t seen one real world case of anyone passing golf balls.

The EPA requires that WaterSense labeled toilets be able to flush a minimum of 350 grams in the MaP test.  The top-rated toilets  can flush at least 1,000 grams at one time (a real world test you really don’t want–that’s more than two pounds.   At present, MaP test is the main, if not only, independently recognized test designed to gauge this rather important parameter.

First published in 2003, the 14th edition is available free-of charge on the websites of the Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA), the California Urban Water Conservation Council (CUWCC), and Veritec Consulting Inc.