Term: Dehydration

Dehydration

Dehydration means to remove water. Therefore, unlike composting, dehydration is the controlled physical process of dewatering moist materials. Dehydration is effective if faecal materials are separated at source without any dilution, since a great part of the liquid phase of faecal materials has not to be evaporated off at all. Therefore, urine di-version is crucial for dehydration.