Waterless urinals

While employed at another university, I performed a cost analysis of the waterless. The results documented a water-saved payback period of approximately 22 years. Considering the unpleasant maintenance task facing the custodian, combining with minimal dollar savings - the university maintains the conventional low flow variety.

Hello,

I’m not sure exactly how you determined the return on investment (ROI) of installing no-water urinal systems and am sure there can be different variables. For instance, it is almost always less expensive to install a waterless urinal in a newly constructed facility versus a retrofit. This will of course impact the ROI.

However, a study conducted by the state of Massachusetts determined that if conventional water-using urinals were replaced with waterless urinal systems, a facility with 1,000 male workers could save as much as 1.6 million gallons of water annually.

OK, we all know there will be a big savings in water use. But what does this mean in dollars and cents?

The researchers wondered about this as well and estimated the cost savings of switching out the conventional urinals and installing waterless systems would amount to about $21,000 in water and sewer costs (based on June 2008 charges).

We have prepared a Savings Evaluation Worksheet that might help you reevaluate the possible cost savings of installing waterless urinal systems.  More information is available at: http://www.waterless.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=54

Klaus

www.waterless.com

Noah, I don't experience with waterless urinals but, I would like to hear from someone that has them in their buildings. Thanks

FYI, there is a previous thread on waterless urinals that people might find useful. It had a lot of replies ...

my.facilitiesnet.com/.../10512.aspx