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[Music] India's got a huge open defecation problem there's not good toilets and people just defecate out in the open the kids get exposed then you'll see incredible rates of diarrhea your water actually gets completely looted pile that fecal slug that's out in the environment a lot of blessed people use our pit latrines and the challenge here is that the equal sludge builds up until it overflows and you're going to stop using that toilet I continued at least once here because to see the progress here to talk to partners there is a lot of progress in India it's 1.3 billion people so it's going to take a long time but people want to change Prime Minister Modi's looking at the amount of open defecation looking at the effects on malnutrition he goes to all the departments the different states and says let's get going getting much much better sanitation so this is an amazing time to be partnering with India and so as we talk to India and seeing this ambitious goal instead of getting rid of open defecation we said okay let's let's come up with great solutions for the toilets that exist we need that make sure except floods gets taken to a place where it can be treated properly and make sure instead of just dumping it somewhere that there's a processing facility that could help with the toilets we have today so we've been working on a omni's faso sir the arming processor is a machine that renders human waste free of pathogens and turns it into fertilizer so great engineers working on that omniprocessor for today's toilets we actually had a contest the foundation brought together all the scientists who have an idea of reinventing a toilet so that instead of having to take the sludge way you just chemically process it or burn it it's gone now our partners are out piloting these things so there's a village where a couple households are trying out a reinvented toilet the key criteria for reinvent the toilet is first of all that it can't smell it's also got to be super and expensive a lot of universities and companies came together and wrote ideas one of those was Caltech now they partnered up with Kohler and they've got a pilot going and here the idea is that instead of having this waste that you have to take away that instead you can use chemical means to completely get rid of the smell and disease-causing properties and so it's a radical new approach we believe that a reinvented toilet will become a reality once you get great toilets then you can convince people that they also be used the health of the village the quality of life improves dramatically and in the years ahead you're going to see real improvements in sanitation here and these lessons will help us solve the problems in other countries as well the hope is that young kids like these will be able to grow up with good toilets for a cleaner safer healthier world you
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Channel: Bill Gates
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Length: 4min 2sec (242 seconds)
Published: Tue Apr 25 2017
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