Big deposit? Use the big button. Just liquid? There's a small button.
There were plenty of less obtrusive variants on the theme as well ...
Despite all the emphasis on water saving, some Euro plumbing fixtures were more than I quite knew what to do with.
I didn't even try to figure out how to utilize this one.
Nor could I quite decode this coaster in a Zurich hotel bathroom:
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Moving a comment over from Facebook:
Susan wrote: "First dual flush I saw was at the Knickerbocker Hotel in Chicago."
Good to learn!
And another FB comment:
Kalpana Shankar: Dual flush toilets in public places have been quite common in Europe - even where water shortages aren't as big an issue (first encountered one in 2007 in Amsterdam).
Unfortunately there are no instruction manuals for tourists and each loo I "visited" had a different configuration! The button for the loo in my hotel room in Dusseldorf was on the wall opposite the loo (about six feet away from the facility).
Spanish plumbing and Swiss English.what a combination.
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