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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Reinvent the toilet fair

It's an interview with a toilet, sort of, as Alastair Leithead of the BBC records the sounds of a wind-powered toilet at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Tuesday. The Reinvent the Toilet Fair is about sanitation for 2.5 billion people worldwide who don't have access to affordable sanitation. This wind-powered toilet was developed by Southern Illinois University.