“No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by the invention of the toilet.”
— SYLVIA MATTHEWS BURWELL, director of the global development program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who went on to say that the 'revolution' did not reach enough people in the developing world. Expanding access to the 2.6 billion people who do not have safe sanitation is the goal of a new $42 million grant to the foundation's sanitation programming, which will fund engineering efforts to create new toilets, innovate sewage solutions or change sewage infrastructure. Three grants have already been awarded [via the Guardian]
