Sanitation
1.8 billion people still do not have access to adequate sanitation – a statistic the winner of the VERGE Accelerate competition hopes to change. Putting in water and sewage infrastructure is expensive, and even portable toilets are out of the economic reach of many low-income communities. But social enterprise Change:WATER labs has created the iThrone toilet that uses membrane technology to evaporate raw sewage and turn it into pure water and urine salts that are good for fertiliser. The innovation requires no plumbing or electricity, making it five times cheaper than comparable toilets and with half the waste collection costs.
— Wayne Visser
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