Bill backs one out at Reinventing the Toilet fair

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In an effort to improve conditions for the more than 2.5 billion people worldwide with no access to safe sanitation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last year awarded grants totaling US$3 million to eight universities to reinvent the toilet. At the two-day “Reinventing the Toilet” fair held in Seattle this week, where Bill Gates was on hand with 50 gallons (189 l) of fake feces made from soybeans and rice to put the various designs through their paces, a California Institute of Technology (Caltech) team claimed first place for their solar-powered toilet... Continue Reading Bill backs one out at Reinventing the Toilet fair

Section: Health and Wellbeing

Tags: Bill & Melinda, Caltech, Gates Foundation, Solar-powered, Toilet, University of Toronto, Waste

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