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Congress is trying to cut $2 million from a Navy study on "No Flush" toilets. I'm not kidding:

The House wants to divert $2 million in the Navy's fiscal 2006 operations accounts to boost a rapidly growing Michigan environmental technology firm that markets itself as the "world leader for waterfree urinals."
In an unpublicized portion of the House version of the fiscal 2006 Defense appropriations bill, lawmakers added a conservation initiative that would pay for a Navy study exploring the use of "no flush" urinals. Advocates say the product could save thousands of gallons of water onboard ships and at military installations where water is scant.

Water is scant on ships? As for the Army, whatever happened to the good ole outhouse? This high-tech stuff has gone too far!