Re:Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet for mankind
by 6ren on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @06:17PM
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Yes, a surgeon who worked in Nepal for charity for 10 years told me that his impact would have been greater digging ditches for sewers. Open sewers are a serious health issue in third world urban centers, enabling disease to spread quickly.
The article is misleading in using the world "toilet" - the serious problem it addresses is sewage, not toilets.
At that density, you either are long dead from a cholera epidemic, or have a proper sanitation system already in place for decades, rendering this system completely irrelevant for the application being proposed - to provide a "waste disintegrator" for those without plumbing.
56000 people per square mile is about 3 times the density of São Paulo (where I live - about 7500/km2), which is slightly larger than New York's. Let's say it's 4 NYC's one on top of the other.
Can you imagine New York without sanitation? Me neither.