Reinventing the toilet is Bill Gates’s new mission
NEW DELHI: Reinventing a toilet that has an operational cost of $0.05 per user, per day, that does not rely on water to flush waste and does not discharge pollutants is Bill Gates’ latest mission. According to him, no innovation in 200 years has saved more lives than the toilet.
But the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says 2.6 billion people still don’t have a safe “affordable way to poop”.
Speaking to TOI on Thursday, Gates said the best toilet right now is the flush toilet and everything else is vastly inferior. “One of my ultimate dreams now is to reinvent the toilet – find a cheaper alternative to the flush toilet that does not require running water, has smell characteristics better than the flush toilet and is cheap.”….more
