WICHITA, Kan., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Sedgwick County, Kan., juvenile detention inmates are limited to three toilet flushes per hour due to water conservation policies, a government spokesman said.
The policy change came after an audit of the county government's water usage determined 55 percent of all usage occurred in various departments of the county jail, the Wichita, Eagle reported Wednesday.
Inmates at the juvenile detention facility can now flush only three times per hour, Jo Oliver, county environmental project manager, told members of a weekly meeting of commissioners and county department leaders Tuesday. A sensor limits the amount of flushing.
The report did not say whether the three-flush limit applied to individual inmates or to the center's population as a whole.
