While looking for a topic to write about, I got surprised for some reason when I read the title of this one - A Human-Waste Gold Mine: Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet! Quite a gross topic to write about I must say.
Yes it’s true. One of the smartest and richest guys in the planet, Bill Gates, is planning to reinvent the toilet. The current toilets aren’t broken so why make a new one? The chairman of Microsoft says that the main goal of this project is to give the poor people mainly the ones in Kenya access to proper sanitation facilities. Despite the usefulness of the traditional western toilets, these aren’t still good enough since world has a limited water source thus having a limited capability to “flush away” human waste. According to UNICEF, 1.1 billion people don’t have the proper access to eliminate waste and that at least a billion children under the age of 5 suffer from diarrhea and this could be attributed by the unsanitary facilities.
So what’s Bill Gates’ plan to reduce world poverty? Bill Gates plans to invent a toilet that utilizes on human waste to something useful such as turning urine into drinking water, fertilizer, and the like. Now that’s what you call a human-waste mine! With some help from German taxpayers, Dutch engineers, and other partners, the idea of the “ultimate toilet” isn’t far away and so is the end of the western toilet we have all known and used all this time.
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