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Thriv’Ability: Affordable Sanitation

Contributed by Rick DeVan on August 19, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET

Resource: Gates Foundation Launches Effort to Reinvent the Toilet via Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

“No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet,” Burwell said in her speech at AfricaSan, the third African Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene, organized by the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW). “But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world. What we need are new approaches. New ideas. In short, we need to reinvent the toilet.”

Combine the new toilets with ideas such as Thriv’Ability: DontFlush.Me and we are on to something.

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