Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @04:10AM from the please-no-pop-ups dept.

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.

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Re:Kudos to Mr. Gates! by Dr.Bob,DC · 2011-07-13 04:22 · Score: -1, Troll

Another tough nut to crack "Show me the science"-type.

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Bob

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