Caltech’s solar-powered toilet wins the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Technology
Caltech won first prize in an international competition organised by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a reinvented toilet that is clean, safe, durable and affordable for the poor and does not need to be connected to electricity or a sewer. This reinvented toilet should be appropriate for wealthy as well as developing countries, where 2.5 billion people worldwide do not have access to safe and affordable sanitation. Three prototype technologies were recognised for most closely matching the criteria for the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge. Loughborough, the only British university in the competition, was awarded second prize, and The University of Toronto receiving third prize...link to an article about the competition and the awards
Reinventing the Toilet: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/pages/reinventing-the-toilet.aspx