The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a 3 million dollar challenge to reinvent the toilet, making sanitation available to the world's poorest and most vulnerable. Read more at their website.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Greatest life-saving invention?
What invention, in the past 200 years, has saved more lives than any other? Answer: the toilet. Sadly, in many areas of the world, there is no modern sanitation. About 1.5 million children die each year from diarrheal disease, and most of these deaths could be prevented with the introduction of proper sanitation, along with safe drinking water and improved hygiene.
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“To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT. It is estimated that, in little more than two decades DDT has prevented 500 million human deaths, due to malaria, that would otherwise have been inevitable.”
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