PSAI Observes World Portable Sanitation Day and
World Toilet Day
Why it matters. Regular readers of Association Insight are used to reading the statistics regarding the number
of people globally who lack access to improved sanitation.
It's more than 2 billion – roughly one third to one quarter of
all the humans on the earth. The number is staggering, yet
for portable sanitation operators in developed countries it all
seems a bit remote. It is easy to imagine that it isn't relevant
in Poughkeepsie, Peoria, or Pasadena. But it's more rele vant
than you think.
Right now there is an enormous international effort underway
to address this sanitation crisis. Those efforts will affect
portable sanitation in developed countries in a couple of big
ways.
• New Toilet Technologies are being develope d that are "off grid" that provide a user experience similar
to a fully sewered toilet. You read that right. These toilets don't require access to sewers or electricity that
depends on a centralized source, and they'll be as nice as any restroom you can fi nd. While many are not
portable yet, in time many will probably be adapted for portability. This means our current equipment will
be in competition with these new concepts. We already know that, given the choice, users prefer toilets
that don't have an ope n tank. So this whole toilet initiative may well be expected to usher in an era of new
and improved portable sanitation equipment. Existing operators will need to decide what to do about
that.
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