Urinals that don’t flush!

waterfreeIn the restroom at Nathan’s soccer game last weekend, the guy in front of me didn’t flush. Irritating.

Then I saw why he didn’t flush. Really irritating.

(Also, I believe I can safely say this is the first photo I’ve ever taken at a urinal.)

Measuring gallons per flush is just so passé. How about no water at all? Congratulations, radical environmentalists. You’ve got men back to peeing in just a hole in the ground, basically.

So can we now expect a tiff between the waterless urinal crowd and the men-should-pee-sitting-down crowd? I mean, the logical conclusion there is a waterless toilet, is it not?

Urinals should flush. Because civilization.

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5 thoughts on “Urinals that don’t flush!”

  1. As long as they are cleaned regularly…why do urinals need to flush?

    (As a non urinal user, I’m assuming the point of the water is to “wash” the urine down the urinal. Is there another reason?)

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    • That’s pretty much the purpose of the flush, same idea with a toilet.

      I’m curious what mechanism they have in these urinals to keep them “hygienic” in place of a water flush.

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      • Funny you should ask. I looked into that.

        It’s just gravity that pulls the urine away as you’d think. The odor is controlled by a replaceable cartridge. I wonder what those cost? I wonder how accessible it is?

        Plus, anything flushing into a municipal sewer system is treated anyway, right? So what’s the benefit? This was at Florence High School in the middle of the city.

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  2. Curious, did your wife happen to make a visit to the women’s restroom? Wondering if the school used some variation of this “water technology” in there.

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    • Kara, after getting over the novelty of being asked to recall something a healthy person is not generally in the habit of logging, mentally or otherwise, Mrs. Williams confidently reports that she used a conventional toilet at the Florence High School soccer fields last weekend.

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