Bill Gates funds development of odour-free toilets for India

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Sick of smelly toilets, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has funded the development of an odour blocking perfume that smells like poop as part of an ambitious effort to develop stink-free toilets and improve poor sanitation across India and Africa. The billionaire philanthropist's 'The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation' partnered with a Swiss-based perfume company 'Firmenich' to create a poop smell blocker with the hope to make smelly toilets a thing of past and make a difference in communities with poor sanitation. 

 

Noting that one billion people had no access to toilets and defecate in the open, 61-year-old Gates said three billion have toilets but their waste is dumped untreated, seeping into water and food supplies, leading to many diseases and slow economic growth. "Beyond the tremendous human suffering, it's a problem that slows economic development. In India alone, poor sanitation costs nearly USD 55 billion each year more than 6 percent of GDP," Gates wrote on his Gates Notes blog. 

 

"Millions of new toilets are being built around the world to help end open defecation, including in India where a massive new toilet construction program is currently underway.