The biggest water user in the home is the toilet. Up to 45% of the water used indoors is flushed down the drain everyday. Cobb County Water System is introducing a toilet rebate program approved by the Board of Commissioners on October 29, 2007. The goal of the program is to provide an incentive for customers in homes built prior to 1993, to retrofit older high flow toilets with new low flow technology. Cobb County Water System also offers customers low flow retrofit kits to help them achieve greater water savings. Please contact the water efficiency program for a retrofit kit. Customers will be eligible to receive rebates for up to 3 toilets per home. If the same brand and model toilets are chosen please fill out one application if different models are chosen fill out one application for each model. This program is available for approved toilets purchased on, or after the Drought level 4 declaration on September 20, 2007.

The program has two rebate options. The first is a $50.00 rebate for the purchase of any approved 1.6 gallon per flush toilet on the approved toilet list. The $50.00 list will be updated every year, coinciding with the annual Maximum Performance Testing.

The second program option is a $100.00 rebate for high efficiency toilets, toilets using 1.28 gallons per flush, which have received the WaterSense Labeling Certification. WaterSense is the Environmental Protection Agency’s labeling program for water efficiency. WaterSense toilets will have the logo on the product. That list will be updated quarterly as WaterSense adds newly qualified products.

For additional questions or information on the toilets please view our Frequently asked questions.

Please submit the original purchase receipt and the application to:

Water Efficiency Program
660 South Cobb Dr.
Marietta, GA 30060

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•Cumulative monthly 2007 sales of single family detached houses  lag further behind those of 2006 through 4Q 2007

•Full year 2007 sales are -19% below those of 2006 and -20% below those of 2005

•Nationally, home sales are -18% below those of 2006 (NAR)

•2007 monthly sales illustrate the seasonal nature of home sales, with peak sales occurring during spring and summer months

•Sales have run steadily lower than last year in each month of 2007 and the gap increased in December

•December 2007 sales will continue to increase slightly as lag processing catches up, but will remain significantly lower than in either of the last two years