As Bill Gates leaves Microsoft to life of philanthropy, presented many billions of valuable things. In February 2011 for example, Bill Gates donated $ 100 million program of vaccination against polio throughout the world.
Well, this is further proof that Gates 2.0 is compatible with good ideas: Reports now retired tech mogul wants to "come up with the bathroom" to developing countries, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recognized. joint German government to improve sanitation in poor urban areas. German taxpayers to contribute $ 10 million 5-year project, which aims to create a sanitation 800 000 people in Kenya, as well as drinking water, 200,000 people.
Time article, originally published in Die Welt, includes shocking statistics of UNICEF: 1.1 million people worldwide have no access to the bathroom. Health waste or other body. These poor sanitation and contaminated drinking water can cause diarrhea.
Good toilet?
Unfortunately, the company has been tested in developed countries is too limited to waste in the poorer areas of water sources. Department of Water and Sanitation Gates Foundation has prepared two options.
Low-tech solution to support the construction of latrines free bathroom area. The second project provides grants to researchers to find creative ways to eliminate waste.
Some of the cunning and the 'last toilet "are:
Add dry toilets that do not use water to clean and separated from the number 2 number 1 dry bulk
Using bacteria to convert waste to compost
Construction of the toilet, which in turn urine into drinking water
Use of powdered human urine nitrogen fertilizers
One of the biggest challenges is to get people in rural areas and slums, in addition to swimming is a good idea to use .
