A WATERLESS urinal company is urging businesses in the South East to play their part in the battle against needless water wastage.

Smarti Environmental, the UK’s leading waterless urinal provider, are advising businesses to switch from flushing urinals to waterless urinals.

The company says that making this switch will save hundreds of thousands of litres of water per year in businesses with more than one urinal.

Research undertaken by Smarti Environmental shows that there are currently 3.5m water-supplied urinals in the UK, which collectively waste 217bn litres of water each year.

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Kimberley Hill, business development manager at Smarti, said: “Businesses have a key part to play in reducing the demand on our water supplies, and one of the simplest and most cost-effective steps is to switch to waterless urinals.

“This not only saves 100,000 litres of water per urinal, per year, it also cuts related costs by more than half, and CO2 by 105kg per urinal.

“To put that into perspective, if all urinals in the UK went waterless, that would be the equivalent of removing 100,000 diesel cars from the road, saving billions of litres of water which is being unnecessarily wasted.”

This is following the imposition of drought measures by two of the UK’s largest water companies, Southern Water and South East Water.

Southern Water issued drought restrictions on August 5, while South East Water announced a ban on hosepipe and sprinkler usage beginning on August 12 in Kent and Sussex.

South East Water said that it had “no choice” but to impose water restrictions to protect customer supplies and the environment.

Meanwhile, Southern Water said that the restrictions are necessary to “urgently reduce” demand on the River Test and the River Itchen.

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The restrictions arrived following England’s driest July on record since 1935, and come amid increased demand for water, which had “broken all previous records” according to South East Water.

With the forecast for August and September predicted to be similar to July for South East regions, the imposing threat of water shortages could be here to stay, making water saving measures more critical than ever.

Smarti Environmental’s waterless urinals are used by both private and public sector organisations including the NHS.

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