Why Bill Gates Wants to Reinvent the Toilet
Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet? As funny as that may sound (quit laughing), this is actually a serious subject.
The goal is to find “innovative solutions” for sanitation in poor urban areas. Gates says it’s time to move on from the era of the classic toilet. He points out that, despite all the recent achievements, 40% of the world’s population, or some 2.5 billion people, still lives without proper means of flushing away excrement. But just giving them Western-style toilets isn’t possible because of the world’s limited water resources.
