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19th on d, w. ah, we eve, we dream and whatever it went into our body, it comes out and we cannot speak about d makes no sense with it. i don't say it, i don't say toilet or excrement because it doesn't help with that. doesn't live as a rude. i want to talk to you today about toilets. we're not allowed to say, and that's part of the problem in we refused the words because we refused the reality. on average, a human produce is more than 70 killers of excrement per year. globally, that presents 550000000 tons of ways to which must be evacuated and treated
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excellent management world wide poses a sanitation, an ecological challenge, which we almost never talk about. and yet, you probably don't know that we are experiencing a huge toilet revolution. 10 years ago, mill gate to explore the world for his foundation, discovered that pope kills. according to the world health organization, half the world's population doesn't have safe toilets. nearly 700000000 human beings deviate outside. the problem is that poor sanitation causes diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis a and typhoid, it kills nearly $400000.00 children each year. bill gates thought he could fix that by inventing a new kind of toilet for these countries. they well, terrible. no, that's not the kind of toilet is financing. in 2011 bill gates launched
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a major international competition called reinvent the toilet. the toilet of the future must be able to remove all the harmful pathogens from human waste and recover resources like energy, clean water, and nutrients. they must also work without a network without running water and almost without electricity. to see these toilets financed by gates, we went to switzerland to a kind of harvard for p. a university which specializes in separating fecal matter and you are in toilets in order to better recover all the good thing was contained in the liquid. we produce more to come up with this new sanitation system. he actually consulted some friends and then make sure they came up with for if a system how we could look like, you know,
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and you know where you how to use chemical physical processes in your process. how to treat the excreta and he actually sent this sketch, you know, this idea out if this invitation to participate in to reinvent the tar, the challenge. and he was extremely technological, you know, so i think sounds like super critical, bought oxidation or electrolysis. you know, this process really fit nicely in this picture and this plan the ear wag institute is participating in bill gates is competition because for decades they have been a global reference in research on water and sanitation. they invent a lot of machines and systems to turn your in into fertilizer and this is your in separating toilet se produced by law.
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this is the collection tank where we collect a urine from this building. this is the biological reactor, where we stabilize the urine. in this column, pharmaceuticals are removed if activated, carbon after pharmaceutical removal. the urine is stored here and later brought to the distiller or concentration. this is the final fertilize the product only. at the outset, e. o ag was going to call its fertilizer made from swiss students. you are in, you're in an in house communications manager suggested they switched the letters to draw inspiration from the latin word for gold instead. that's why they chose orin. to be clear, the ear wagons teacher would separate you are in and fecal matter and collects the students you're in because number one, it's easier to treat our waste when it's separated. number 2,
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most of the nutrients are concentrated in the urine and most of the bacteriological bombs, the ones that kill children, are concentrated in the feces. one afternoon we found ourselves that one of the biggest factories in the world the sin of, i'll waste water treatment plant in paris, the wifi liberal port here you see the sledge produced at our facility, but that will, that pilot, 2 days worth of the slides will be carbonized which will make it hygienic. then we can spread it on agricultural field. so pipe will not have you got another with the fact that people like bill gates want to invent almost to dry toilets, which separate urine and fecal matter always brings us back to one question. why did rich countries choose the flush toilet which uses so much water and
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a central sewer system terminating at a waste water treatment plant? until the mid 19th century in major european cities, the most common custom was to empty your bucket out of the window. the streets were so filthy that the scientists of the day ended up wondering if the bad odors themselves were causing the epidemics. that was called the my asthma theory. who in $1858.00 london was sweltering and the level of the thames where all the excrement was dumped was at its lowest. the stench was so strong that the members of parliament feared they'd fall ill. it took powerful people smelling the odor for the tide to turn this event cold, the great stink was the spark, which launched a vast undertaking. the city was gutted to create a centralized shoe,
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a system thousands of kilometers with dog at the same time and several major cities like in paris which had nearly 3000 kilometers of sewer pipes. the same period saw the invention of the flush toilet the height of efficiency when it came to making what you didn't want to see any more disappear. discussed for fecal matter is a human constant. and our super expensive and sophisticated system does all it can to evacuate excrement every day. we produce about one overly of urine and about 200 grand of why the we went through and neither a few gallons of water to make the problem bigger and then go and filter it out. it must be crazy when you're working on the toilet issue. you constantly hear about mr
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toilet a business man in singapore who at the age of 40 realize that all he had done was accumulate money based on the life expectancy of a singapore young man. he calculated how many days he had left to live and decided to devote them to a single cause, the revolution of sanitary facilities. so when i was 3 or 4 years old, we live in come phones, which is like slum village. and we do not have pilots in our own house. the toilet is in the row of hot with british bucket system. so you will go up a few steps and you are squatting on the blank. and then you put into the bucket. when the bucket truck comes to collect it and replace it with a fresh new one, everybody wants to go to the pilot. but after
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a while is the pool of other people's and the different colors. and then you have the senate pets with the bloods violet paper and the flies immediately come and there it is. very, very disgusting and very disturbing mr. toilet, but all his weight behind the battle against sanitation inequality. he wanted the whole world to take on the issue he found in the world toilet organization, through which he talks about hoops on every continent. over the last 10 years, the stars have aligned the u. n's sustainable development goals of put sanitation in the center of global concerns. for n g o's, for the people who always worked in development, it's a toilet moment, they feared, would never come. a furnace from billiards, rational c, p o,
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the bill gates foundation founded several studies and research labs in the field of sanitation to try to gather more data on this subject. yeah. i wasn't remotely shocked to see someone outside the field showing interest. okay. don't get yeah. until i see, yeah, not like don't ask, it's always good to have a different kind of actor in the development sector up with someone who's able to challenge our own development practices. look more here with gap. there's a complimentary dynamic in that kind of approach. paul paul pipe, he could develop on mush response gone the almost when was he to complement i, he was he, i don't suit or suit and also to push all development experts will tell you for decades, rich countries have been digging dry toilets in poor countries to bury waste and they have a very hard time convincing states that it's a vital public health issue. all that was true until october, the 2nd 2014 i'm
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glad you did that. i bought them a lot of it that i love you. bye bye bye now. yeah, that, that, but on a monthly, hey, i indian prime minister in a render and moody. i chose gand his birthday to announce the launch of the biggest ever latrene building campaign. in his speech, he said that a nation like india, which sends its own satellites into space, can no longer allow its people to relieve themselves outside. the figures are stark at the time of the 900000000 people in the world who had no sanitary facilities. 40 percent were indian that not only due to the vastness of the country or its lack of infrastructure by a prevalence of outdoor deification in india is also due to a cultural problem. so dr. bat are created, so lab international which wants to put an end or tradition that's lasted thousands
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of years in india, the one which involves leaving the handling of hooked to the untouchable cast away our child. i does, i go through it and for that matter, my then mother forced me to swallow cow dung and to drink. gout unit in the ancient, sacred tex of hinduism required a man to difficult and arrows flight from his home. and if there was unfortunately, excrement very close to your home, it was considered absolutely unclean to take care of it. so the untouchables went from house to house to pick up your feces. delivering up in rochester, i picked up peoples fecal matter leakage when we were hungry or thirsty people gave
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us water or left over food upon it. but without ever touching her. so said the little they tossed some coins at our feet. we really suffered that we couldn't do anything else pick to that. it's what we've always done. generation after generation. i got a legible, there has never been any other option for us, given all of the food that would have gone a lot of a new if we had tried to sell vegetables on the no one would have bought them. you think you're being get they can look some of the vehicles go we later the gun i don't about himself. a member of the very high brahman cast decided to go against his own class interests and to break with tradition, my study finds my study. oh,
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a new daily his organization hosts a school for children of untouchables. everything is devoted to showing that excrement has value, that it can be used to make gas for cooking. for lighting, for feeding plant speaker, dr. paddock wants to convince his fellow citizens that toilet's are desirable space and that you should have wanted home rather than defecating outdoors. he has even created a toilet museum for business, which generates the money for dr. paddock. organization is public paid toilets, thousands of which are spread all over india employing more than $35000.00 people. he's even creating the taj mahal of public urinals, all this so that the hindu culture of hating excrement no longer hinders toilet adoption. in this matter, dr. paddock inspired prime minister in the rend remoting campaign
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is called swash by that. which means clean india mission for an emblem it uses gand is little round glasses been not at all given up. it's an unprecedented construction effort. tens of millions of rudimentary dry toilets are being built all over india and not at up. and it's also a massive communications campaign. giovanna will be on a prime minister, was filmed, sweeping streets and inaugurating toiletry. if you change nothing, nothing will change. a bollywood movie was even made about a woman who doesn't want to marry her fiance. if he doesn't have home latrines as you're going into i suki killer dodge melbourne idea. agent like what i got to him . i me tell the batch on the island a law of mom by became the face of toilets. brother. yup. oh.
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so jello bought a bottle touch of what it's about converting a nation to defeat, catering in a whole lot about adobe or daughter, bobby martin. bob taylor and 5 years later on october, the 2nd 2019 on gand is a 100 and 55th birthday. marin dra moody once again addressed his people and the world. he announced that no one defeated outside any more. god, my god got on there. i beg, i'll buy this. oh, i live, he's very bad. then on yon. ok, good god. so donna, gone? minima. yes. got busy, right? i don't read the the united nations the n jose bill gates. everyone pretended to believe that so as not to upset the world's biggest democracy in india,
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the army and the delivery are not the same. day of the 110000000 pilot. it is anybody guess, whether it is 50000000 or 30000000, or 80000000. we do not know. i think the only thing we can know is that the world bank has promised to distribute to $1000000000.00 to india if they can proof that the pilot is been use. and today i think there has still not yet distribute the 2000000000 dollar re what to serve his own political agenda . and therein, remote, he chose to massively subsidize latrines which often went on used to this day in india, paperless till deviating by the side of the road. ah,
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elsie, on the back is that we embarked on this adventure with the gates foundation to discover the code of bad odors to see what we could do to find a scientific solution for 1st time toilet uses in china. india and other places. yeah, yeah. i mean, so we did some science together for the adventure lasted several years, a john to present that in 4 months german issues researchers traveled to collect fecal odors at the source in latrines in india, kenya, uganda and south africa. from this fitted around the world trip and they brought back the conviction that beyond climatic and food specificities, there was a combination of 5 compounds which cleverly balanced could reproduce the exact odo of excrement. yes, this precious nose, which generally designs the essences of our luxury perfumes has been assigned to
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the approval of feces. no war and taste and smell a tied to emotions. so could we bring positive emotions to the poorest among us, who lack access to toilets. but sadly, the technique produced a powder to throw in the bowl, a spray and a hanging air freshener, and is already sold in several african and asian countries. it was tested in india in the city of pone where a start up is developing a new toilet bus model exclusively for women. that's a fundamental aspect revealed by this toilet revolution. lack of access, sanitation has a much greater impact on women and all men. and bellagio, marino scotia, in a world mostly made up of male engineers, and technicians, is an activist for this cause. long day, the lack of access to toilets and hygiene for women is definitely the central issue
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in this conversation. savage, for some women, it might mean getting up very early, and before the rest of the family, i want to plan to go and relieve themselves in the field next to their house or village, or waiting to go late at night. why do i, let's what her dollars, family, song peak that's dangerous, no security. elm say say we know it is lead and still leads to sexual violence, may yet more problem, but also to feminine hygiene problems. infections. duke was now that's why solutions like the bosses of really great because they have diapers, stations are yet information about aids, information about how to use feminine hygiene products, assistance and support for women and their personal hygiene. poly fan, don't you get none of that out in a field? genuinely fam, no, no. he and batson, and nor can you wash your hands and when a sampling model. and as we have all learned in recent months by lima,
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that can create major health problems. that payment won't, pintos, wassa, kaylee gore problem. this'll be a durbin, a south african city, with 4000000 inhabitants by the indian ocean, is playing a crucial role in the ongoing toilet revolution. because of the endemic drought in south africa. but also more surprisingly, because of the end of apartheid, martinez was to prepare for the new south africa. and as united a project you had, you had a central city which was mainly what people surrounded by a sea of poverty, which was mainly african people. many of whom edna services from 1996 until 2000. it was easy to motivate for money for water because that was the big issue. but we started to realize that just bringing water to families was causing another problem,
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a public health problem, because then there was crating sewage and the sewage was just running through the houses and causing problems. and then in, in 2002 we had a color outbreak and that changed everything. suddenly the politician said, we need sanitation with neil mccloud or the helm. the municipality of durbin has become a pioneer in the separation of urine and fecal matter to save water. it's also testing alternative solutions to the western flush, the toilet and waterborne sewage system. a research group at the university of choir zulu natal is neal macleods experimental branch dead. naturally one day bill gates came across neil mccloud, his pollution research group and the crazy sanitation history of durbin. and we got that phone call in december 2000 and nod. please be at the hilton at 6 o'clock in the morning the somebody coming to see you and you can tell anybody at i thought it
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was going to be bill gates his father and up walked bill gates had i knew you know what he went to show me why you keep up your deposit off that that, that did the rug sector. and i said, well, you know, my, on such it was, i don't need your money. i need your interests. and we took him out, chris, back, they came with me and we showed him what we were doing. and our partnership was evolving and he went back and he started investing his sanitation and the rest is history. i mean, he started the reinvent the toilet challenge and we became the engineering field to center. yeah. for all the work and that's continued on as, as we've made all the advances. so when the reinvent the toilet competition was launched by the bill and melinda gates foundation, durban, and it's hundreds of shanty towns were chosen to test the competing toilets designed by chinese american and swiss universities. there were technical
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challenges, but there was socio logical ones too. among the 10 systems tested in the shanty towns of durban, a chinese company had a spectacular failure. in china, you don't through the toilet paper in the bow. in south africa, you do very quickly, their brand new system broke down in durban and it took days to get it back in service. we had a lot of sledge build up. so those are things that we had to deal with on the ground and figure out how to, how to solve and, and ultimately, you know, just sort of came to realization that the way that the process was design just wasn't applicable to south africa. yeah, that is one of the challenges when bringing in a system from another country and bringing it into a developing country where the municipalities generally did not have the skills or the capacity to maintain and operate the systems. say yeah, it is something that has to be looked at when you're bringing in a new technology. are you able to maintain it? are you able to operate at? do you have the necessary manpower to do it?
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ah, hello. i'm bill gates, chairman of microsoft. in this video are going to see the future. bill gates has a major technological bent. you can't really reproach him for that. back. is that bent, which has made him one of the richest men in the world from selling computer operating systems to most of us windows environment? when he decided to reinvent the toilet, said that it could be used even in countries without waterborne sewer systems. bill gates, his geeky side, naturally, came out the universities which worked for him developing chemical solutions reactors to destroy the bacteria and fecal matter. electrolysis based treatment was the toilets end up looking like spaceships the highest the last. she's the injected air pushes the eco matter into the reactor high as well as the valve closes and the
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reaction occurs to it combustion. i don't determine the fecal matter is then heated to between 40600 degrees celsius on the at about 300 bars of pressure the cell by 500. i think originally bill gates was thinking in this way. he thought when he was young, a compute the feels silver rooms to be able only to compute a little bit of information. today, the computing power on our cell phone is able to do the job of very, very big i, b, m, compute the longer goal. therefore, he's believe when technology can be introduced, then everything becomes smaller and smaller. the only difference between the computer and this is that the compute the is in bytes.
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and you can just keep on growing the bytes without growing the size. whereas the put in at you cannot digitize hook, you will always physically has that though 100 gram. every time. well, i brought a little exhibit here. ah, this is a container of human. these, these are dana sent once in a speech i released mosquitoes. this we're gonna keep the char ah, ah, but in i think even though it's very stark. ah, it's good to be reminded. ah, dead inside there could be over 200000000, brought a virus particles 20000000000 she gallia yellow bacteria, and 800000 parasitic were makes which you've got
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a little animation in november 2018 when bill gates placed a jar full of fecal matter on the podium at his conference at the re invented toilet exposure in beijing. the billionaire prove that he is a master of communications. he achieves the unthinkable putting toilets on the global agenda. he also successfully imposed a new narrative that excrement can be profitable if it's at the heart of new industries which produce energy and fertilizes. the toilet board coalition was built on the dream of being able to transform poor people's pool into money. one of the main ideas behind the toilet board coalition is that the collection of fecal matter in poor countries will be enough to create sufficient energy, like bio gas or electricity to finance the whole sanitation system. to become type. in beijing, everything seemed to be going great for universities were proudly presenting their
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new toilet solutions in your and bill gates announced that the technologies that his foundation had financed are ready to be adopted by the market. here. our goal is to create a, a multi $1000000000.00 business opportunity our, that at some point is getting by or without any sort of philanthropic grant money. that it really just a balls are in the companies competing to buy the best product using these new paradigm. 3 years later, in a world in which we are questioning our development models, priorities have changed. the high per technological solutions advocated by bill gates are having a hard time finding a foothold in the real world. they're probably too costly and they don't challenge our waste management. it was an afternoon like any other biologist. felipe malaysia knows home in
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a village in the swiss alpine foothills. there he's testing experimental toilet models that we choose nature, particularly earthworms for fecal matter treatments solutions on that compet macbeth do contact i, vic, we've completely lost touch with the side and proximity of our excrement lap. hocksey me, did the north x come off at the doctor, we excrete it. we flush an old disappears toward this, but it's gone. they'll take me on that. we don't know what happens to it or not, but there are no risks. was no odors good of what? when you say a feel is big enough to feed a cow throughout the year. i mean, there's $500.00 killers of me on that cow and 3 tons of earthworms right there under its feet. ash. yep. what done the vet that there? it's the earth worms that are hard at work don't over do worms. i'll fire react as all the gaudy blue doctor you don't we consider even that shape reveals that
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they're long intestine and newly more common they live even more so than us. that guts, packed in a thin skin embody, didn't put it cushion to put their even better by reactors than way off yolk act. ok and then the so much. so this fecal matter got inhabited and colonized by mushrooms and earth worms in your becomes edible again for one of the when you commit to eat what they excrete about that 4 times a 5 times it gap was on a foot. feeling malaysian who uses earth worms in his home, made toilets to kill bacteria and render the fecal matter harmless. 8 relieves himself in a tube to give his vegetables the good nutrients contained in his urine. oh, you might think that this professor calculus of the restroom, this earth whim fanatic isn't a very serious person and that he's not going to so the global toilet problem.
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then phillipe invited us to follow him to geneva. ah, this is a building in the heart of the city it's residence, decided to develop a more ecological sanitation system which could re inject waste water into a very low volume flush toilets. so they called felipe him of asia, knew who rounded up his worms it welcome what you were. what do you envision already? at 1st there was just in your house, but now it's for a 100 people. then for 300 fear and then la street. but she, by the buildings with 300 people, would be pretty good on there after that,
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the next thing the neighbourhood could do this in a whole neighborhood. if you look at these lovely earthworms, you'll see a nice big bunch of them are you? it's a big pool in the buildings, courtyard full of straw excrement and earth worms. a giant filter which makes it possible to treat organic matter and even a lot of chemicals. the earth worms eat, eliminate, and re ingest everything dangerous, purifying it the combust can then safely be used to fertilize the gardens. it doesn't smell bad at most. there's a slight smell of humus wafting in the pit. oh, it me, i'm john. all there is maintenance, right? who if it's in a city, don't you have to take some of it out from time to time, which is the level not just the with no, everything is transformed. here we have the decomposition of all the components of the whole, the sugar polymer cynical into carbon dioxide and water through this affair for
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form one dog and all of the residual mineral souls on flushed out with the excess water grill of it. in fact, i've ethnic food is said legal authority. so when you see this hyper modern building in central geneva, it's 38 dwellings. it's a $140.00 residence. you'd never imagined that there are millions of worms on cleanup duty in the courtyard. that's good said the hotel goal is to get water. that's clean isn't what comes out of the treatment plant or at least it's clean but cleaner? if possible, it's not hard to achieve because water from treatment grants isn't very clean. that's all the brush on the thought pip up. it's that he counted on rapidly digested through, injecting oxygen get a buck which helps develop bacteria that consume residual sugars effectively. that's all easy to digest. isaac tooth care facility jiffy. i mean, we're at the 1st stage of waste water treatment. this involves removing the large
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waste that comes in from the sewers. what we find tree branches, sanitary wipes, all kinds of waste. it's vital that we remove it from the water before it gets treated. at 1st you focus on the p poop side of this story. i venue realize that it's about something else entirely. this sanitation revolution challenges our entire waste management system because all sorts of things end up in our treatment plants. joke is critic, noisy or what is waste water is oki san genie. it's the water generated by our household activities, other toilet water, lee gray water from our daily activities activity. so keep you could, you could see it's also the water use for artist law and industrial purposes. so lead was wandered latina lastly, you know it's rain water which washes the air and the city and then flows into the collector. so it's all of that was one or liquidity,
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or cruises or 2. so we got you all set it up to print while you were at the activated sledge treatment stage. it removes nitrogen and phosphorus from the water, sorta. how do we do it on forever? again, we use nature, we cultivate the naturally occurring bacteria in the water. of course, in addition to feces, waste water carries a whole bunch of chemical product, school, micro pollutants, and they're much harder to treat. millennial poll your cool about we are on the micro pollutants in our sludge. and this is the problem which if they come from many different sources and acquisition or sell us in particular, nor would you have to figure what you were saying is quite right, la scuba when we go about our business. so last, when we're washing the dishes or washing her hair, when we'd our garden remove moss from our roof, et cetera, we're not, we're not, none of those activities lead us to not where you are without a realizing it exceeded fish and to use many compound songs all mentally and
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multiple components. many today, due to non bush moody, culinary vocal pussy. today, i get to clean the bathroom, go all stuck with a nasty job in the house naked guns that total action vanish. try it. see total action vanish, lifts off water stains, disinfect bleachers. he believes it's true that for decades we were encouraged to throw as many chemicals as possible into our toilet bows, to eradicate the slighted bacterium jobs right under the rim, and leaving the problem the mic. hopefully, the problem is that micro pollutants are getting worse as human college and vents. new compounds. when i'm produces new compounds without having studied the hom, they might do to human health of the environment and they look back to see me they for lot. so do men also do love? you can move on. we're creating an increasingly serious problem result, people not only of these synthetic compounds not removed and treatment plans also move on. they also accumulate in places where we really don't want them to approve
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edible sac humidity. i develop all of them, could have body to kill tucker at the outset of this toilet revolution stemmed from the idea that we have to give sanitary facilities to those who don't yet have any. it's also about giving developing countries, small treatment plans to avoid investing colossal sums for waterborne sewage systems, engine treatment plans, especially in south africa where yeah, we don't have the space. so i think that, you know, the facilities to put in more big large, you know, central waste water treatment works. and it makes more sense economically and also environmentally to have on site sanitation treatment or decentralized treatment systems. rather than putting in extensive, you know, piping etc, to, to take everything to a central place, it's much better to treat it as source. and if you can take that and produce something useful out of it, that's,
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that's even better at the truth is that new toilets, new waste water treatment models also sold our 1st world problems. decentralization treatment in each neighborhood or each residence could enable us to better control what we release into nature. and maybe it would make us more responsible i really believe that the fir onsite treatment, the centralized treatment we can really improve the overall sanitation, says i, there will always be a place for centralized systems, definitely, but not for every location. so we, we can also, we also have to rethink the water use. so now we have to water supply and it's, it's such a big achievement that we have fresh water drinking water supply by pipes. but do we really need drinking water for toilet flushing? and do we really need 50 lettuce per person per day for tight flushing? we don't need that. so we can,
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we can actually recycle water. so in large buildings we can treat the gray water. so that's the water from the bathroom and from the kitchen. a lot, the toilet water we connected through. there are the easily to reuse it for toilet flush. we should do that. we should explore new options. mm hm. so it's not just about the little boys or little girls room for the last 10 years. this broad rethink of the way in which we manage our most basic waste is a definite point of no return around the world. the vast majority of wastewater, more than 80 percent goes untreated, our stool i'll urine contribute to the over 30 lies ation of the oceans to excessive al gay growth and to the us fixation of the sea. for all the way in which we manage our excrement isn't insignificant. it's the very heart of life
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fecal matter and urine have always fed the ground which feeds us when fear of disease in cities lead us to banish our waste. as far away as possible. we replaced natural fertilizers with chemical fertilizers on the moon, who knew had thought when we stopped giving back to the soil when we took out of it . because matt started living in city of ethiopia, and it was too costly to return to the earth things which should be returned to the f. one that we created. instability helped us on the keyboard, but we might not all end up with earth worms at home to eat our excrement. or this idea that faces should return to the ground that we can't content ourselves with getting rid of these substances without transforming them. and re integrating them into the life cycle will certainly be the foundation for the launch of the upcoming toilet revolution. with doesn't go as
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a formal wall. well, that doesn't go as a formal oh, i am now with a blue. cannot move i normally at with ha room with blue me ah ah, lags can inspire big changes, meet the people making possible, go africa, joined them as they set out to save the environment, learn from one another and work together for
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