He is up against an alliance of environmentalists and plumbing manufactures, however. There has been some grousing about Al Gore's boat ride in Connecticut, using excess water that could have flushed 2.5 billion toilets. However, the real problem is that water is not very costly so that a large amount of drinking-water quality is used to water lawns. If there were a real shortage of water, and an appropriate price, people would buy the toilets now in use in modern airplanes. They're noisy but use very little water.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Don't hold your breath A black eye for Greenpeace, though. A Dutch court has ordered a freeze on the Greenpeace bank account there while British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. pursues a claim for compensation for shipping delays. Seems that Greenpeace had been blocking nuclear fuel shipments to Japan, causing delays and financial losses. It seems like a great way to get rid of plutonium, by burning it up in reactors. Apparently, Greenpeace does not realize that the standard uranium fuel creates its own plutonium within the fuel element, which is then burned up along with the uranium-without creating any fuss.