The Corporacion de Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Santo Domingo (CAASD) says that aside from wasteful water habits and leaks in cisterns and pipes, which greatly account for inordinate levels of water consumption, one may also attribute the excessive waste to the inefficiency of toilets. Julio Suero Marranzini, director of the city water and sewage department, said that the toilets used here result in the consumption of 16 liters more than the average of other countries per flushed toilet. An average toilet in the Dominican Republic has a tank that requires 22 liters to flush. Suero Marranzini, however, wants Congress to enact a law that would require toilets be installed with much smaller tanks. He says that toilets with six-liter tanks could do the same job and calculates that the nation would save 131 million liters of water a year. Suero estimates that in the city of Santo Domingo alone, 60 percent of the 15 million cubic meters of water used per day served is connected to waste. He says the government needs to set an example, installing only toilets with six-liter tanks in its own housing projects.
