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A River (Of Urine) Runs Through It

January 31st, 2012 2 comments



Yes, chalk another one up for the greens and their silly ideas.  This latest green fiasco involves the “waterless urinal,” a disgusting thought if there was one.  The basic idea is that a disposable odor absorbing cartridge is placed inside a waterless urinal.  The cartridge is intended to absorb the urine odor, thereby replacing the need to use water to flush the urinal after each use. 

The only problem is that this Florida school’s sanitary pipes were made of copper and because there was no water used to flush the wee-wee out of the pipes, it remained in the pipes and created a strong, corrosive gas.  The gas corroded the pipes, leading to a river of  disgusting urine and odor that flowed from the walls into the school’s hallways.  GROSS!

I wonder how sanitary these urinals actually are.  If there is no water to flush the urine from the urinals, does the urine from the previous user remain on the walls and floor of the urinal?  If that were the case, would there not be “splash back” risk for subsequent users?

From The Daily Mail










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