Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Call For The Reinvention Of The Toilet, Offers $42 Million In Potty Grants

"In short, we need to re-invent the toilet." That 's what Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation' s Global Development Program, said recently. She was at the AfricaSan conference in Kigali, where they called called donors, governments, the private sector and NGOs to discuss re-invent the toilet. Yep, the toilet. The idea is noble. The majority of developing countries have no access to toilets. As Burwell suggests no other innovation in the last 200 years has saved the lives and better health than the toilet flushing, but the bowels Revolution be achieved only a third of the world. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is hoping to rekindle that fire, and improving the lives of countless millions.

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