Can a better toilet save lives? Duke researchers hope so. - North Carolina Health News
University researchers are sharing more than $200 million in grant money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop small-scale sanitation systems. An estimated 4.2 billion people worldwide lack safe human waste disposal systems.
By Greg Barnes Never in his wildest dreams did Duke University researcher Brian Hawkins think that he would grow up to help design a toilet that could someday save the lives of millions of people. But here he is now, on the front lines of “Reinvent the Toilet,” a project involving researchers from across the […]