Write a short story in which the GPF ( gallons per flush ) of a toilet is somehow crucial to the plot . [ WP ]

The design engineer shifted nervously on the Senate floor. People were dead; more people than the *Deepwater Horizon* accident could have even managed to kill. Thousands of barrels of crude oil now turned the waters and beaches of Florida black. A well was leaking from the ocean floor. No one had survived. 
 
 The engineer had been the project manager for the *Artemis 2000*-a state of the art, ultra-deep water, double derricked drilling ship. It was, or had been, the largest ship in the world. It was larger than the *Emma Maersk* and the *Prelude* combined. It housed over a thousand people and had brilliantly arrived into the Gulf a month ago to start work on its first well. 
 
 Now it was bloody, oil coated scrap metal at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and the engineer was to blame. 
 
 `` And what we still fail to understand,'' the head of the Senate stated accusingly, `` Is how a disaster like this came to be.'' 
 
 `` Well,'' the engineer said, `` The main sewage tanks burst. The breach flooded some of the key electronic safety backups, shutting them down and ultimately allowing a downhole overpressure scenario to occur.'' 
 
 `` But... how did you let the sewage tanks overfill so easily?'' 
 
 `` Well, we missed calculated the GPF of the toilets... uh, that is uh, the gallons per flush.'' 
 
 The engineer eventually received back to back life sentences for his oversight.
