Researchers have come up with two new urinal designs to prevent the spillage of “ill-aimed pee.”
The waste (╯°□°）╯
The researchers suggest that if Nautilus was to replace the 56 million urinals across the U.S., around 1 million liters of urine would be prevented from being splashed onto the floor every day. Assuming that the volume of water needed to clean up spilled urine is about 10 times that of the volume of urine, about 10 million liters (2,199,692 gallons) of fresh water could be saved every day, the scientists said.
The widespread adoption of these urinal designs “would result in considerable conservation of human resources, cost, cleaning chemicals, and water usage, rendering large-scale impacts on modern society by improving sustainability, hygiene, and accessibility,” the researchers wrote.
They should drop everything and do this first thing.
Assuming that the volume of water needed to clean up spilled urine is about 10 times that of the volume of urine, about 10 million liters (2,199,692 gallons) of fresh water could be saved every day, the scientists said.
These scientists appear to be working under the incorrect assumption that the urine gets cleaned…
Think of what we could be doing with that urine if we actually invested in recapturing it.
Citation needed.
Thank you protestor. I mean it doesn’t even pass the possibility test. 300m people population, 1m litres ≈ 300L per person, per day?
You got your numbers mixed around.
1m liters/340m men = 0.00294 liters per day
That’s just under 3ml, which is very little, but still seems high. Assuming that not every man is using only the urinal, the number per urinal usage is even higher. But I also don’t know american public bathrooms, are they that filthy?
I’m sure there’s one weirdo responsible for ~70m liters, peeing at the floor at every opportunity.
It is literally in the article: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745
Spilled makes it sound like someone’s clumsily carrying around a barrel of urine throughout public toilets.
Sit and pee.
Urinals are disgusting.
/European man
But urinals are so much more efficient both in regards to water usage and time.
Sure pal, and it’s not like 90% of men piss standing into a toilet as well, which oftentimes ends up worse than using a urinal.
At home, absolutely.
Out and about, I ain’t sitting on that nasty seat, thank you very much.
American here. I’ve started doing this at home and it’s just way more sanitary. No more drops off pissy toilet water splashing around.
When I’m out and about I still pee standing up because public restrooms are filthy.
I sit to pee when I get up in the middle of the night. Don’t have to be able to see.
Us poor women gotta sit :(
Well when there are no seat covers, I always lay some TP over the seat before sitting. Or squat without sitting.
People might sit more in your country, but I’ve never heard of that being particularly European.
Oh yeah, sorry about that.
