So I went on Amazon seeking "interesting" Reviews and Q&As. What I found surprised me. There are bidets that have 21,000 reviews, 12,000 reviews, 14,000 reviews, 11,000 reviews, etc. I know that Amazon sells internationally, but still. I've never seen a product line with so many reviews. There's so much more, but I find the more I learn about this subject, the less I care. But if it comes up in casual conversation, I'm more ready than I want to be.
There are so many things in life that make me wonder where technology might lead us...solutions not yet imagined. I believe that this is one problem we pretty much got solved. Can't mankind just move on?
Better mousetrap and all that. Besides, the pandemic gave the bidet manufacturers a new lease on... life.
American designs and methods might fail in some areas. This (failure) might even be more common than non-failure .... (whenever more money is made from failure of something, guess what happens ? ) .... However, yes, your concerns may be totally valid. The 'solution' may be to go to Europe where they have saved billions (or trillions) of gallons of water since the Flintstones , having used in Europe bidets for quite some time ... (I have not verified this with Europeans, but this is what was the info available the last several decades on television / media/ internet) ... I think Japan has used them also... successfully.... all subject to someone 'there' (Europe or Japan) reporting their experiences, or the public's reported experiences there...
I'm not sure I want one, so rather than spend the money and change my mind later, I'm using my Water Pik as an end-run.
Yeah, 3 or 4 guys in the backyard drinking beer and watching the chicken burn on the bar-b-que and one says, “Hey John, how about those bidets?!!” The question is, do you kick that guy out of the bar-b-que club, cut off his beer intake, praise him for getting in touch with his feminine side or quietly inform him that a bidet is not a new Canadian hockey team?