Water-free sanitation infrastructure
The water-free, contactless female urinal for public spaces.
MadamePee shortens the queue nobody should have to stand in, keeps every surface untouched from approach to finish, and eliminates water waste entirely. No plumbing, no flush, no drainage run.
- Zero water per use
- No plumbing or drainage
- Contactless throughout
- Relocatable in minutes
Built for the teams who run public space
Public Works
Municipal
Event Partners
Live events
Civic Green
Sustainability
Transit Authority
Transport
Parks Alliance
Public realm
Festival Collective
Production
Public sanitation was never designed for half the people using it.
Four failures show up on the same site, on the same afternoon, and they compound each other.
- 01
The queue is never the same length
At identical footfall, women's facilities clear far slower than men's, because a cubicle is the only thing on offer. Stadiums, festivals, transport hubs and high streets all inherit the same imbalance, and it lands on the same people every time.
- 02
Hygiene fails exactly when it matters
Shared seats, wet floors, door handles and a flush that has to be touched. The busier a site gets, the worse the surface somebody has to put their hands on, and the further behind the cleaning rota falls.
- 03
Every flush spends drinking water
A conventional public toilet uses potable water to move waste, then needs supply, drainage and a wastewater connection before it can exist at all. Under drought restriction that becomes a hard ceiling on how much provision you are allowed to build.
- 04
Capacity cannot follow demand
Demand moves by the hour, by the season and by the event. Fixed pipework cannot move with it, so provision sits unused at one end of a site while people queue at the other on the same afternoon.
What changes on site the week it arrives.
Every one of these follows from the same decision: take the water out and stop asking anyone to touch anything.
- 01
Faster queues
Each unit adds a self-contained position that turns over in well under a minute. Capacity goes where the queue actually forms, rather than waiting on a cubicle door to open.
- 02
Improved hygiene
Nothing is touched. No seat, no handle, no flush button, no door catch. Sealed surfaces wipe down dry, so the unit still looks presentable at the far end of a long shift.
- 03
No water waste
Zero litres per use. The system separates and seals without dilution, so nothing is flushed and nothing is spent carrying it away afterwards.
- 04
Eco-friendly
A recycled polymer shell, no discharge to sewer and no mains draw. Sealed cartridges leave site for treatment or nutrient recovery instead of the drain.
- 05
Easy to relocate
Free-standing, ballasted and forklift-ready. Two operators move a unit across a site and have it back in service without a plumber ever attending.
- Water per use
- 0 L
- Services needed
- None
One sealed unit, with nothing running behind it.
MadamePee is a single moulded standing position. Everything it needs to work is inside the shell, which is why it can go where a plumbed facility never could.
- Materials
- The shell is moulded in one piece from UV-stabilised recycled HDPE, thick enough to take a festival weekend and a city winter without fading or flexing. Every wet surface inside is antimicrobial powder-coated stainless, and a sealed one-way membrane keeps odour in the cartridge where it belongs.
- Contactless use
- Approach, use, leave. An infrared field handles the entire interaction, so there is no seat to sit on, no handle to pull and no button to press. The privacy wing screens the position properly without turning it back into a cubicle somebody has to queue for.
- Install and relocate
- Four anchor points, or a ballast tray if you would rather not touch the ground at all. Two people, about a quarter of an hour, no water connection and no drainage run. Lift channels are moulded into the base so the same two people can move it again next week.
- Cost and impact
- Without supply, drainage or a wastewater connection, most of the cost of a public toilet disappears before anything is built. What remains is the unit, a cartridge swap on a schedule you set, and a dry wipe-down that takes about three minutes.
Key specifications
- 1 180 x 620 x 540 mm, 46 kg empty
- Recycled HDPE shell, stainless steel liner
- 0 litres of water per use, no discharge
- 55 L sealed cartridge, roughly 400 uses
- Battery or 12 V DC, no mains required
- About 25 minutes to install, two people
Six things the unit does, whatever you put it next to.
The same shell serves a transport concourse in February and a field in August. Nothing is specified twice.
- 01
Contactless access
Infrared activation from approach to finish. No seat, no handle, no flush button and nothing to touch on the way in or the way out.
- 02
Water-free system
Zero litres per use and no wastewater to carry away. Nothing to freeze over winter and nothing to isolate during a hosepipe ban.
- 03
ADA considerations
Standing use with no reach, grip or transfer, and a level 1 220 mm approach at every position. Specified alongside accessible cubicles, never instead of them.
- 04
Built for events and cities
A UV-stable recycled shell over stainless internals, rated for a festival weekend in August and a full city winter on the same unit.
- 05
Low maintenance
A dry wipe-down and a cartridge swap on a schedule you set. No pumps to prime, no traps to clear and no plumber on call.
- 06
Modular install
Banks of one to six positions off a shared back panel. Add capacity where the queue forms and take it away again when the season turns.
From the people who have to make the site work.
Hannah Whitfield
Event Operations Manager
Manchester
We put four units at the top of the main arena path on the Friday and the women's queue stopped being the thing people complained about. By Sunday the crew were moving them to wherever the crowd had drifted.
Diane Okonkwo
Public Realm Officer
Bristol
No supply, no drainage, no wastewater consent. That took about eight weeks out of the programme and most of the cost with it, which is the only reason the scheme happened at all.
Marie Lefevre
Facilities Lead
Lyon
The dry clean-down is what won my team over. Three minutes a unit, no standing water to squeegee, and the surfaces still look presentable at the end of a long shift.
The unit, the bank, the install and the sensor.
Four pieces from the technical library. Open any of them for the detail.
The eight we get asked first.
If yours is not here, put it in the form below and you will get a straight answer rather than a brochure.
About 25 minutes per unit with two people, and no trade on site. Units either fix to four anchor points or stand free on a ballast tray, so there is no supply to connect, no drainage to run and no wastewater consent to wait on. A bank of four is usually in service within a couple of hours of the lorry arriving.
All of it. A MadamePee position uses zero litres per use, because nothing is diluted and nothing is flushed. Measured against conventional provision, the saving is the entire flush volume of every single use, plus whatever a supply and drainage run would have leaked or spent moving it.
Nothing is touched and nothing is shared. The interaction is contactless from approach to finish, wet surfaces are antimicrobial powder-coated stainless rather than plastic, and a sealed one-way membrane with a carbon filter holds odour inside the cartridge. Cleaning is a dry wipe-down, so no standing water is left behind between uses.
A 55 litre sealed cartridge takes roughly 400 uses before it is swapped, and a swap runs to about four minutes for one person. Turnover per position is well under a minute, so on a busy site the practical limit is how many positions you specify rather than how often the cartridge changes.
Yes, and they are designed for it. Lift channels are moulded into the base for a forklift or pallet truck, and two-person handles are moulded into the sides for shorter moves. Free-standing units go in minutes; anchored units need four bolts out first. Nothing has to be drained or disconnected, because nothing was connected.
It varies by authority, and it is nearly always simpler than a plumbed facility. With no supply, no discharge and no drainage connection, the water and wastewater consents that hold up a conventional installation do not apply. What usually remains is a temporary structures or highways licence for the placement itself. We assemble the technical pack your authority asks for as part of the quote.
Purchase or seasonal hire, priced per position rather than per site, so a bank of four costs the same wherever it lands. Servicing is quoted separately against the cartridge schedule you choose. There are no standing water or wastewater charges to carry, which is usually the larger part of the difference over a year. Send the form below with a unit count and we will price it properly.
Stock configurations ship in two to three weeks. Custom shell colours, branded panels or banks larger than four run to about six weeks. Event hire is booked against a calendar, so for a summer weekend the honest answer is to talk to us in the spring.
Tell us where the queue is.
Send the detail and we will come back with a unit count, a placement plan and a price. If it is an event with a date on it, say so and we will work backwards from the date.
- What happens next
- A short call to confirm placement and footfall, then a written quote against your unit count.
- What we need from you
- The site or event name, any fixed dates, and a rough idea of how many positions you want.
