It is another slow environmental news day. So I will share a bit about my meeting yesterday.

There were over 50 employees from water districts around the bay area and I was the only "customer". The group was somewhat informal and designed to allow the water districts to share ideas and experiences.

As a customer I was given about 15 minutes to share my experience with the Ecoblue Cube. This is a retrofit option that turns a standard urinal into a waterless one. This system is highly affordable and more cost effective to maintain than other systems. Specifically the Ecoblue cube is the only conversion that prevents scale and is good for the environment. This is different than deodorizers that we are used to seeing in urinals.

With my 15 minutes I was able to share how I am saving the Mt Diablo Unified School District over 2.5 Million Gallons of water a year and at a cost of less than $2000 a year. This means the cost of the cube vs the cost of the water match at 72 days into the year. Another way to say this is that in our installation the cube has a 72 day return on investment. So not only is it cheap to install, it pays for itself and saves 99% of the water.

I say 99% because we still need to run some water through the urinals during normal maintenance cleaning. Added benefits include a pleasant scent and reduced mechanical maintenance on the urinal plumbing.

If you have a urinal where you work, even in a port-o-potty, check into the Ecoblue Cube. There is no substitute or alternative that will lower maintenance costs while saving this much water.

Ecoblue Cube Website