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Toilets and the Future of Sanitation

Toilets

Image of a toilet drinking fountain with words on the wall behind it that says would you drink from this fountain?

Think you know a thing or two about toilets? Test your knowledge with our quiz, then learn more about the innovations behind the toilets of the future below.

Toilets of the future

Cranfield Toilet

CIRCULAR toilet
Cranfield University


How does it work? The Cranfield Circular Toilet is a low-water toilet that connects to a self-contained sanitation unit. 

Eco-San/ Blackwater

Blackwater Household Reinvented Toilet
California Institute of Technology, Yixing Eco-Sanitary Manufacture Co. (Eco-San)


How does it work? The Blackwater Household Reinvented Toilet doesn’t separate pee and poop but processes them together using “anaerobic digestion.”

Family looking at a future toilet prototype at the Discovery Center.

G2RT Toilet

G2RT FUTURE DESIGN vision
Generation 2 Redesigned Toilet (G2RT) team


How does it work? The G2RT looks like a toilet from the front, but the back of the unit has much more in store than the typical flush. 

Field view of the Enviroloo buildings.

Enviro Loo

Enviro Loo Clear Reinvented Community Toilet
Enviro Options, Clear


The Enviro Loo is a unique off-the-grid community toilet that requires no sewer system, no water, no external energy, and no chemicals.

Omni Processor

Omni Processor
Janicki Bioenergy


If a toilet can be reinvented, why not a waste treatment plant too? Engineers developed the Omni Processor to provide a low-cost method of treating human waste in low-resource areas around the world.