Guest post by Katie Leach-Kemon, a policy translation specialist from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Flickr,…
Ugandans transport a Swiss-made ‘diversion’ toilet – one of the Gates Foundation’s winners in its re-inventing the toilet competitionEawag It’s…
One of the most popular missions lately for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been its effort to re-invent the toilet, an initiative it launched nearly two years ago to great media fanfare. Lack of access to proper sanitation is a huge global public health threat, and need.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it was shifting its emphasis in water and sanitation efforts to…
Lack of proper sanitation is why many Haitians are under assault from cholera right now, with more than 2,300 dead…
It’s World Toilet Day and the blogosphere is all abuzz with humorous talk of toilets, interesting factoids (e.g., more people…