Rain water use for toilet flushing - Vincent Massey Park service pavilion

The public washrooms (service pavilion) at the very busy Vincent Massey Park in Ottawa, Canada, harvest rain water for over 90% of their needs. That's the water used for the low-flow toilets. The urinals in the men's washroom require no water and the taps at the sinks use regular treated potable water supplied by the local muncipality.

All the rain water that falls on the large roof pours down the sides to gratings that lead to an underground cistern (storage tank.) When water is needed for a flush, it's sent up to the toilet.

The overall pavilion.
The service pavilion at Vincent Massey Park in Ottawa.
The water flow from the roof to the grating.
The service pavilion at Vincent Massey Park in Ottawa.
Diagram from the park showing the underground cistern (water storage tank) and other features.
Diagram of the service pavilion at Vincent Massey Park in Ottawa.
Low-flow toilet fed with harvested rain water.
Low-flow toilet fed with harvested rain water in the Vincent
      Massey Park service pavilion.
Zero water urinals in the men's washroom.
Zero water urinals in the men's washroom in the Vincent Massey
      Park service pavilion.

Other features - lighting and electrical power

Much of the lighting is sunlight. As the photo below shows, the day I was there taking pictures the electric lights weren't even on. All lighting was coming from a skylight and from sunlight coming through the walls.

27 photovoltaic panels (solar electric panels) supply power to the local electrical grid/power utility. Meanwhile, electricity for lighting, the hand drier and pumps for pumping water from the underground cistern comes from that same electrical grid. More power is generated than is used so the pavilion is a net-zero electricity user.

Skylight and electric lights - note the electric lights are off.
Skylight and electric lights in the Vincent Massey Park service
      pavilion. Note the electric lights are off.
Sunlight from the mesh and translucent panelling.
Sunlight from the mesh and translucent panelling in the Vincent 
      Massey Park service pavilion.
The power for the electric hand drier comes from the grid but is made up for by the solar power put on the grid.
The power for the electric hand drier comes from the grid
      in the Vincent Massey Park washroom but is made up for by the 
      solar power put on the grid.
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