Makerere University has designed metallic mobile toilets code named ‘Smart Portable public trailer toilets’.

The metallic mobile toilets are in a trailer like form and they are intended to benefit masses especially urban centers and slum communities in Uganda.
The metallic mobile toilets have been constructed using metallic materials. The metallic mobile toilets technology is new in Uganda and in Africa. These metallic mobile toilets have four units. The metallic toilets have been designed by Makerere University’s College of engineering design, Art and Technology under the Architecture and mechanical engineering.

Dr. Allan Birabi, the project team researcher says that the metallic mobile toilets would benefit the urban residents and communities facing with poor sanitation where access to clean and decent toilet facilities is a problem.

The metallic mobile toilets can be used by major institutions with poor toilet facilities like schools, hospitals, and army and police barracks.

The metallic mobile toilets will integrate the unique qualities of a portable, self-contained toilet model with the dynamic ecological systems of urban centers in Uganda.

The professors at Makerere University say that the smart public toilets will also cater for the needs of disabled people which most current mobile toilets tend to ignore.

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