Pee in Style and Save Water
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 01.25.07
Urinals in the home bathroom make so much sense. No more battles over the toilet seat, no more gallons of water down the pipe every time. Now urinals can be completely waterless, saving even more. Designers are streaming into the market, Clark Sorensen has an entire line of artful units like this "Jack in the Pulpit", Duravit makes a home waterless unit and we are particularly fond of the Toto Lloyd. According to the New York Times: Eric Cadora, a 42-year-old actor and consultant on green building, installed a Duravit McDry model, which uses no water to flush regularly, in the 2,800-square-foot home he shares with his wife in Malibu, Calif. He estimates the urinal will save thousands of gallons of water a year. Maintenance, he added, has been minimal; every two months, he flushes the fixture with a gallon of water and then refreshes the sealant. “It never smells,” Mr. Cadora said. ::New York Times
great idea, but that artist seems to have some issues!
If that's a waterless urinal then why is there a flusher on it? ;-)
aren't there waterless toilets too? I was talking to some norwegians and they expressed amazement that we used so much water--they said their toilets were air-flush.
And to answer your question, the flusher is an air pump that blows the waste down a tube and (I believe) into a sterilizing solution. I'm totally putting one of these in my house. Why don't houses have urinals? Makes no sense not to.
This is the most regressive, energy wasting, consumeristic idea I've seen in a long time. Can we not just sit to pee? What is it with men anyway? Clearly haven't spent enough time cleaning bathrooms. Have you never noticed the "spray" that accumulates around urinals?
Howboy, you must have misread the article. Its a passive urinal that requires no energy or water. I just piss in the sink. Oh yes.