With as many engineers as we have in Houston, surely someone wants to take on this challenge.
Today is World Toilet Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness of the problem sanitation for over 2-billion of the world’s population, and it’s connection to disease. Expanding the use of toilets is the vision of the day, but in a world where access to clean water is already a problem, the prospect of modern flush toilets everywhere is not realistic. So the Gates Foundation and others are stepping in with grants and challenges to engineers and other innovators who can help address the challenge of reinventing the toilet
Given Houston has gotten man to the moon, and innovated space toilets along the way, surely we can give a sh*t about this challenge too. (Besides a hacker just cracked the security codes into the sewage system of South Houston. We might need to do this as much for our own security as much as the world’s health.)
Special Coverage: World Water Day (AlertNet/Reuters)