A user shows the female urinal. - Photo from South China Morning Post
Singapore is studying the feasibility of adopting a proposal for female urinals to be designed to cut female usage time at public toilets by half to only about 90 seconds to help reduce the long queueing time faced by women at public toilets in Singapore, especially at shopping malls or convention centres.
Hong Kong Toilet Association is trying to combat the extremely torturous waiting times faced by women to access a public toilet in the densely populated cities of Hong Kong. According to the Hong Kong Toilet Association, such facilities would cut peeing time to just 90 seconds (1.5 minutes), compared with the usual two to three minutes, and thus help to shorten queues outside women’s washrooms.
Moreover, urinals would also take up only half the space of a full cubicle, therefore allowing more space to build more urinals to cut the queue at the ladies toilets. The facilities could include disposable paper urine funnels to help women aim accurately, and a shelf above for bags to be hung.
“It is much more feasible to install additional female urinals than to build new cubicles, especially in smaller and older public toilets,” said the group’s vice-president Henry Hung Chi Kuen, who has a 40-year career in plumbing engineering.
Hong Kong Toilet Association is trying to combat the extremely torturous waiting times faced by women to access a public toilet in the densely populated cities of Hong Kong. According to the Hong Kong Toilet Association, such facilities would cut peeing time to just 90 seconds (1.5 minutes), compared with the usual two to three minutes, and thus help to shorten queues outside women’s washrooms.
Moreover, urinals would also take up only half the space of a full cubicle, therefore allowing more space to build more urinals to cut the queue at the ladies toilets. The facilities could include disposable paper urine funnels to help women aim accurately, and a shelf above for bags to be hung.
“It is much more feasible to install additional female urinals than to build new cubicles, especially in smaller and older public toilets,” said the group’s vice-president Henry Hung Chi Kuen, who has a 40-year career in plumbing engineering.
A photo of a paper funnel for a female urinal. - Photo from South China Morning Post
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