Aid agencies are scrambling to treat thousands of cholera patients in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, where the number of infections is mounting by over 250 per day. Most patients are from the city’s various urban slums, where open...
Toilets that use microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal. These aren’t your typical loos – they are part of a Bill & Melinda...
Seattle — Bill Gates today announced the winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge—an effort to develop “next-generation” toilets that will deliver safe and sustainable sanitation to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who don’t...
More than a million children die from diarrhoea-related illnesses in Africa every year and it’s public health issues like this that will be exercising the minds of delegates at a conference on sanitation to be held in Durban in December. The 12th...