Toilets with modern technologies

When we think of a public loo our expression automatically changes to a feeling of disgust. We dread going to any public toilet and that often causes several urinary infections or disorders. Luckily, there are some entrepreneurs who try their best to make our lives easier. A Hyderabad based entrepreneur is accommodating public restrooms with 24-hours of hygiene tracking and giving them a sanitised makeover. On the other hand, a couple is focusing on developing solar-powered, vandal-proof units with the aim of introducing proper hygiene practices in urban slums. Abhishek Nath along with his team scaled 18 smart, Internet of Things or IoT-enabled public toilets in the Hi-tech city of Hyderabad. The 40-year-old entrepreneur who developed live hygiene tracking is planning to take their model to other cities. Abhishek Nath revealed that cities like Pune, Chennai, Varanasi, Delhi and Bengaluru have shown interest in this model. Also, they are trying to figure out how to save water as Nath says that the flush and forget approach to human waste doesn’t make sense anymore. Last year in October a prototype toilet was unveiled at the Hyderabad Design Week, ‘toilet of the future’, which is designed to capture rainwater and filter it to use as drinking water. A new toilet to be set up in collaboration with the Telangana government and British Council, which will not have the flush facility. Instead of the flush, there will be a vacuum pump that will transfer the dump to the tank for composting. The composting will take place under controlled aerobic conditions. Now comes the part of extracting the fertilizing nutrients from that waste. Nath’s team in association with a Swedish company is working on that. They are working on a commode that will segregate nutrients from waste with the help of biological treatment or chemical extraction. In a pilot study of Ixora, the team has been able to extract nitrogen and phosphorus from urine. A Faridabad-based company that developed Garv toilets, operational across the country and outside in places like Ghana, Nigeria and Bhutan wanted to replace brick and mortar structures with the indestructible stainless-steel ones. These stainless-steel loos are fitted with facilities such as wastewater recycling.  

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