Bill Gates focuses on the toilet of the future

Bill Gates bets on the toilet for the future of the world. The head of Microsoft, in the guise of humanitarian philanthropist who wears the association and his wife Melinda and which pays most of its income, presented a check for $ 100,000 to the 'California Institute of Technology' for the project on the toilet solar energy that recycles water and reusable energy derives from the degeneration of human waste. The 'Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation' is focusing on the fact need for a new type of toilet that can be easily implanted in the southern hemisphere, where the chronic shortage of toilet involves sanitation problems that are every year due to the death of over one and a half million children under five years. Approximately 2.6 billion people, or 40 percent of the world's population - most of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia - have no access to health services and are forced to defecate outdoors. 'It's important - said Gates - continued cooperation and facilitate further investment in this area.Many of the projects presented here - he continued - will help to transform our reliance on traditional toilets'. Armed with this belief, the foundation announced new investments of approximately $ 3.4 million, which means that about 6.5 million appropriations. Last year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given grants to eight universities around the world to help address the problem and to invent a toilet that uses little water, both economically and transform waste into energy, clean water and nutrients. The prize of 100 thousand dollars went to a team that has submitted a bath solar operation, where a panel produces the energy needed to transform feces and urine into hydrogen, a gas that can be stored and reused as fuel and generate other forms of energy . The water is purified and recovered instead to flush the toilet. Gates also bestowed awards at Loughborough University in the UK and the University of Toronto for their projects that focus on the transformation of feces into useable resources. The goal now is to produce the new toilets in the next two to four years. The Gates Foundation invests about $ 80 million a year to bring water and sanitation in countries that do not. The foundation of BIll and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private philanthropic organization in the world.