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Bill Gates Endorses Water From Human Waste
theodp writes: GeekWire reports that Bill gates is certainly leading by example, appearing in a video in which he sips "a glass of delicious drinking water" produced from human waste processed by Janicki Bioenergy's OmniProcessor, which can take sewer sludge and turn it into clean drinking water, electricity and clean ash. So how was it? "The water tasted as good as any I've had out of a bottle," said Bill. "And having studied the engineering behind it, I would happily drink it every day. It's that safe."
-1 for irrelevant pedantry in the form of trolling.
Associating his name to a device like this dovetails into the kind of programs his foundation has been funding in Africa and other countries
"Dovetailing" his name into this turns me straight off the idea. Here is one of the biggest corporate rogues the World has ever seen trying to rescue his massive negative karma by thowing money (of which he has so much that he could not possibly spend directly on himself) at what he thinks are do-good projects. Actually, there is nothing new about processing sewerage enough to make it drinkable.
He should be giving a proportion of his money back to the people he has cheated first. Then he can do what he likes with the rest.