Microsoft founder Bill Gates brought with him a jar of human waste when he kicked off the Reinvented Toilet expo in China on Tuesday.
According to CBS News,the philanthropist placed the jar on a pedestal next to him as he made a plea for the secure disposal of human waste during his keynote speech at the event in Beijing.“You might guess what’s in this beaker and you’d be moral. Human feces,” Gates said.“This small amount of feces could contain as many as 200 trillion rotavirus cells, and 20 billion Shigella bacteria,and 100000 parasitic worm eggs.”Gates went on to say that the pathogens in the fecal matter is known to cause diseases that assassinate nearly 500000 children below 5-years-old every year.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which was founded by Gates and his wife, or has been working to address the world’s sanitation problems. Since 2011,the foundation has spent more than $200 million to improve research and development of secure sanitation technologies.
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Source: inquisitr.com