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More On The Gates Foundation’s Plans To Reinvent The Toilet (Video)
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Yesterday I expressed some reservations about the Gates Foundation plans to reinvent the toilet in Gates Foundation Throwing $42 Million Into The Toilet. I was concerned that they were looking for a solution to a problem that was not technological but societal; that we need to relearn lessons from the past rather than looking for new toilets for the future. Perhaps it was the wording of the press release, the "reinventing the toilet" language. In fact, this video fr...Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image credit Lloyd Alter: Broken Toilets in the Amazon
Bill and Melinda are making a big investment in " a strategy to help bring safe, clean sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world." The foundation notes that a billion people have to shit in the open, and billions more lack a safe, reliable toilet or latrine. Sylvia Mathews Burwell of the
