Traditional toilets use roughly 30% of the total water used in a household — up to 13 liters of water per flush. However, waterless toilets are a new way to eliminate the use of water, and turn waste into pathogen-free organic compost.

The waterless toilet is a device that separates solid and liquid waste, through a separator and the implementation of a series of simple mechanisms that help to do it. Once separated, the solid wastes are dehydrated by drying mixture of earth-lime, so that it becomes a pathogen-free organic compost. Finally liquid wastes go down the drain, since the treatment of greywater is much simpler and safer.

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