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TORONTO — The University of Toronto is one of eight international institutions to receive a financial grant earmarked to retool and redesign the toilet, according to The Star.
Professor Yu-Ling Cheng and her team have been awarded $400,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with which they are to design a self-contained eco-friendly toilet that can run off the grid — no electricity, no running water, no sewage system, the article stated.
According to the article, the grant was announced by the philanthropic Gates foundation at AfricaSan.
"Toilets are a big issue for human health — it''s a humanitarian issue,’" said Cheng, who is also the director of U of T''s Centre for Global Engineering (CGEN), which promotes research and education activities related to engineering in a global environment.
"The lack of clean drinking water in the world is important, but the lack of a way to safely deal with human waste is even more pressing," Cheng added.
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Retooling the toilet
July 21, 2011
This should prove interesting. Sancor Industries makes the Envirolet line of composting toilets which is somewhat like what the article is describing. And they are in Oshawa, Ontario, which is just outside Toronto.
Do you think $400,000 is enough to get from the University of Toronto to Oshawa to learn what a "self-contained eco-friendly toilet that can run off the grid" looks like?
