If it's yellow.....

Wow peoples lack of knowledge here on this subject is immense! lol

Yellow let it mellow is the way to go, DONT WASTE WATER

Oh and for all those people going 'eww'..... urine is sterile, its probably more sterile than the 'clean' water in the toilet before you P'd
 
D D Danneh said:
Sterile for like, 5 seconds, it's the perfect breeding ground for diseases as soon as it leaves your body.
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no, thats just rubbish.

it's sterile because it contains Ammonia and Urea, which despite smelling bad, are quite excellent disinfectants. urine CANNOT be host to bacteria or viruses.
 
Aod said:
no, thats just rubbish.

it's sterile because it contains Ammonia and Urea, which despite smelling bad, are quite excellent disinfectants. urine CANNOT be host to bacteria or viruses.
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It doesn't contain much, if any, ammonia normally (unless say you have liver failure). It's sterile because we clean out bacteria when we pee, which is also incidentally, why men get UTIs far less frequently than women - longer urethra for bacteria to get up. The beginning of the stream isn't sterile. This is why doctors ask for a mid-stream urine sample.

Urine certainly can be host to bacteria, that's what a urinary tract infection is.
 
Personally we always flush here.

For those of you going on about saving water, energy and the planet, I am pretty sure that your time would be better spent writing to your water board and complaining about the amount of water that escapes their infrastructure, or perhaps writing to Starbucks complaining about the fact they waste a supposed 23.4 million litres of water a day!

I couldn't find any exact figures for current water board leakage but Severn Trent Water wants to get their water leakage down to 475Ml/D by 2015 with leakage in 2007/08 for all of England and Wales sitting at 3,291Ml/D

Ml/D = Megalitres per day
 
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Monkey Puzzle said:
It doesn't contain much, if any, ammonia normally (unless say you have liver failure). It's sterile because we clean out bacteria when we pee, which is also incidentally, why men get UTIs far less frequently than women - longer urethra for bacteria to get up. The beginning of the stream isn't sterile. This is why doctors ask for a mid-stream urine sample.

Urine certainly can be host to bacteria, that's what a urinary tract infection is.
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i'm pretty sure that the ammonia is a result of the natural breakdown of the urea
 
I've read that people that drink their urine have many health benefits, but they have to drink about half way through peeing as the first bit contains all the toxins.
 
I'm not a hippy, I have a motorbike and drive a non-ecconomical car, but I do make attempts to save myself costs at home, i.e. turning off lights, not putting the heating on unless absolutely necessary, and not leaving the shower running when "larthering". I know my efforts are probably insignificant in the long term, but it's the way I was brought up and what I was used to doing. The more people start being careful, the more likely I'm going to be able to keep running my cars and bikes which I love ;) So it's a selfish thing really :p
 
ordinaryjoe said:
Urine doesn't evaporate into the air... distilled water may (of which some may be urine) but it is distilled... cleaner than any undistilled other water you will ever find
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I've seen the lids and toilet seats of people who don't flush after a whizz and they often have a yellow residue on them. It's disgusting.:(
 
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