ApocaDocs: Could a toilet reinvention help save $260 billion worldwide?

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Posted Mon Mar 24 2014: from Associated Press:


	Could a toilet reinvention help save $260 billion worldwide? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1395677983 Who would have expected a toilet to one day filter water, charge a cellphone or create charcoal to combat climate change? These are lofty ambitions beyond what most of the world's 2.5 billion people with no access to modern sanitation would expect. Yet, scientists and toilet innovators around the world say these are exactly the sort of goals needed to improve global public health amid challenges such as poverty, water scarcity and urban growth... The World Bank estimates the annual global cost of poor sanitation at $260 billion, including loss of life, missed work, medical bills and other related factors.

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'Doc Michael says:

This new kind of toilet will be poopular.