REINVENT THE TOILET
Not so many days after the World Toilet Day (19 November), I have curiousingly come across a video in Youtube called ' Bill Gates Thinks These Toilets Could Change The World ', which dates from November 2018, and which, taking into account the sanitation focus of this blog, I wish I had watched before... I find it weird that, having already talked about some of the latest sanitation projects aimed at developing countries such many African ones, this did not show up at any moment. The Reinvent the Toilet Challenge was initiated in 2011 as a set of grants, awarded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , to researchers around the world for the development of innovative approaches to bring sustainable sanitation solutions to the developing countries. The initial idea arose when in 2009, founder of Microsoft Bill Gates posed the question: " is it possible to leapfrog the long-accepted “gold standard” of sanitation: flush toilets, sewers, and treatment plants? ".
