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Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the German government are working on a $10 million project to provide innovative sanitation facilities to 800,000 Kenyans over the next five years. From the article: "The goal is to find 'innovative solutions' for sanitation in poor urban areas. Gates says it's time to move on from the era of the classic toilet. He points out that, despite all the recent achievements, 40% of the world's population, or some 2.5 billion people, still lives without proper means of flushing away excrement. But just giving them Western-style toilets isn't possible because of the world's limited water resources." I wonder what the toilet version of The Blue Screen of Death is.
A proper privy is sanitary, stinky, but still sanitary. I think he has finally went over to the nutter side. a flush toilet that wastes precious water is NOT the answer.
The answer is teach these people how to build a proper outhouse with venting and propery locate it AWAY from your water supply. Many photos sent by friends that are in Peace Corps shows people crapping basically on top of their water source.
How about making it cheap and easy to purify any water for thee people FIRST... the greatest way to reduce disease is to give everyone a source of clean water.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Karma be damned...
Obviously, the vocal Chrisitian... why? Because someone has to keep the pews full. The non-vocal person helping society does nothing for the hegemony of the church. If everyone just privately practiced their religion, there would be no real power in the churches and they wouldn't be able to pool together funds to create schools, build billboards, print bumper stickers, or create silly cartoons to brainwash kids into their ideology.
Oh, you meant better for society? Obviously the person that does the most work in the community without constantly preaching their ways to the people they help. But that doesn't sell any Bibles.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.