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I'm curious where you're from that every single urinal in the whole country has been upgraded.
I'm from Ireland but pretty much any country I've been has all been automatic urinals
I haven't seen a manual flush urinal in Finland in years either
I live in Belgium and the last time I remember having to flush one of these was at least 10 years ago without exaggeration
and zero flush toilets exist in the wonderful benelux
I assume that in Benelux, they're all just using squat toilets that have to be rinsed out with a bucket of water?
nah, we have those wonderful german poop shelf toilets so we can analyze our excrement
I'm from Australia and it's been like 8 years since I've manually flushed
I have never seen a manual urinal in Britain. Never.
It's not even upgrade, even twenty years ago, most of them were either always rinsing or on some sort of intermittent timer. I guess when they were just a big communal trench it didn't make sense for them to be flushed by an individual. (UK / various Europe)
In the UK all the urinals in the bathroom will be flushed automatically at the same time using an auto-syphon that is attached to a tank that's slowly and continuously filled with water.
So it requires no moving parts or electricity, and flushes automatically at a regular interval depending on how fast the water supply is.
And it's been that way basically forever.
That's awesome! Do you by chance know what they are called? I did a quick search but all I see are electronic ones.
They're typically just called a "urinal automatic syphon"
Here's a great Steve Mould video on them if you want to learn more
https://youtu.be/XjQc8Bf0UlM
Thanks. I love Steve Mould.
Sounds like a waste of water. Why not simply use motion sensors or flushless urinals like they do in the US?
The modern ones do, this was the solution before motion sensors