No flush, no water, no odour, no power needed

“Life is all about pee and poo,” asserted
Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi Prof.
Vijayaraghavan Chariar.
And to prove that you cannot underestimate
the importance of pee or poo, seriously you
cannot, the “waterless urinal technology”
has been invented and installed in the “now
odourless” gentlemen restrooms on the
campus. This success story will now be one
among the many exhibits on show at IIT-
Delhi’s “Open House” on Saturday.
The waterless urinal also has a clever way
of containing ammonia in the urine, that
“usually allows your nose to find a
restroom anywhere” and also costs one-fifth
of the waterless urinals already available in
the market, the professor quipped making
light of a “smelly” issue.
However, making it possible to attend the
call of nature without the embarrassing
side-effects of smell is only one part of the
“no flush, no water, no odour, and no
power needed” invention.
It is also decidedly green and all about
conserving nature’s “bounty”.
Prof. Chariar further added: “Phosphate, a
rapidly depleting mineral, is most useful as
a fertilizer and found abundantly in human
urine. This special function, which we can
call “save the pee”, is also meant to recover
this fertilizer. Non-smelly, of course.”
Water in all the toilets across the city,
seems to somehow miss the sewage
treatment plants and end up in the Yamuna
instead. Another reason, according to Prof.
Chariar, to go in for a “waterless” toilet.
Needless to say, the whole technology has
been patented along with the special
contraption that extracts ammonia before
releasing the phosphate-rich, odourless
urine into the lawns, plants or another part
of the garden that you might wish.
The only thing the professor and his team
haven’t worked out yet is to somehow make
a similar toilet for women, which is still in
the waiting due to sanitation issues.