The Waste Water Treatment Plant Is a Mini Wastewater Treatment Plant

The toilet part is a pretty normal potty situation. But whenever anyone flushes, their number ones and number twos flow into a pipe that leads to a mini wastewater treatment plant behind the bathroom wall. It gets its power from a solar panel on the bathroom roof. On the wastewater treatment side of things, it's so little smelly. So the smell that you smell here, this is ammonia. It's in the urine. There's a lot of ammonia in urine. The smell is from the waste tank. The toilet flushes go there until the water is treated. All that water eventually gets clean.

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