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The conservation movement is alive and well in Lenora Campos’s test kitchen. Lenora, who serves as public relations manager for Toto USA, represented the firm’s line of residential plumbing products at last week’s Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco.  One of the great pleasures of attending the annual show, now in its 50th year, is the advance viewing of products that consumers haven’t yet seen.

The word from the plumbing front is eco-luxury.  That is the term Lenora uses when discussing a new line of Toto faucets that have been designed for environmental efficiency and a high design aesthetic.  Like many Toto faucets, the eco-luxury line delivers whopping water savings—but this one measures its efficiency at about 0.5 gallons per minute, giving it a 32% edge in water savings over the Federal government’s last recommendations.

With more than 1500 engineers working in Toto’s research and design department, it’s no small wonder that the science behind the products is revolutionary.  Check out the Toto site at: www.totousa.com and take a look at the Eco Power Faucet, which is sensor-operated, built around an internal turbine small enough to fit into a kitchen faucet. It creates a green loop, conserves water and still acts like a high performance water fixture.