TIL about 1 million liters of urine is spilled onto the bathroom floor every day in the U.S.

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Researchers have come up with two new urinal designs to prevent the spillage of "ill-aimed pee."

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DOGE needs to fix this.

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The researchers suggest that if Nautilus was to replace the 56 million urinals across the U.S., around 1 million liters of urine would be prevented from being splashed onto the floor every day. Assuming that the volume of water needed to clean up spilled urine is about 10 times that of the volume of urine, about 10 million liters (2,199,692 gallons) of fresh water could be saved every day, the scientists said.

The widespread adoption of these urinal designs "would result in considerable conservation of human resources, cost, cleaning chemicals, and water usage, rendering large-scale impacts on modern society by improving sustainability, hygiene, and accessibility," the researchers wrote.

They should drop everything and do this first thing.

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Assuming that the volume of water needed to clean up spilled urine is about 10 times that of the volume of urine, about 10 million liters (2,199,692 gallons) of fresh water could be saved every day, the scientists said.

These scientists appear to be working under the incorrect assumption that the urine gets cleaned...

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They're also assuming the bathroom floors wouldn't be cleaned regularly if there wasn't urine on them. I'm pretty sure all buildings with a custodial staff mops the floor everyday, bathrooms twice a day. They'd at most reduce cleaning the bathroom to once daily instead if these urinals we're absolutely perfect and no other reason for cleaning bathroom floors existed.

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