Bill Gates shows us the future drinking a glass of water made from poop.
On his personal blog, Gates said he watched piles of feces disappear into a treatment network only to emerge as drinking water. The facility Gates visited also created electricity when it burned the poop. Other than clean water and electricity, the only other output, according to Gates, is "a little ash."
The plant is part of the philanthropic Gates Foundation's ongoing quest to improve living conditions in the poorer regions of the world. It's the re-imagining of a sewage treatment plant called the Omniprocessor which was invented by Janicki Bioenergy, a Washington-based engineering company. The Omniprocessor is about to make its way to Senegal where it will be part of a pilot project to provide more livable and sanitary conditions in the area.
Gates says nearly 2 billion people around the world use latrines that are not properly drained and many just defecate outdoors, without any toilet facilities whatsoever. As a result, waste water becomes contaminated, often with tragic consequences, with some 700,000 children dying each year from diseases caused by poor local sanitation.
In the video, Gates drinks water made from human waste to prove that the technology developed by Janicki Bioenergy works.
By Fursie Guido @ Hapee Pinay
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