Tuesday 19 July 2011

A better loo? Gates gives $42M to improve toilets (AP)

In the photo taken Sunday, July 17, 2011, in the Korogocho slums of Nairobi, Kenya, with Joseph Irungu, left, and one of his 50 workers who dumps effluent from pit latrines from the slum into a local water course. On Tuesday July 19, 2011, at the AfricaSan Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced dlrs 42 million U.S.  in grants to encourage innovation in the capture, storage and re-purposing of waste as a potential energy resource.  About 1.5 million children are believed to die each year from disease contracted from bad sanitation and the Gates Foundation believes most of these deaths could be prevented with clean drinking water and improved hygiene. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)AP - At dawn every Sunday, Joseph Irungu leads an army of 50 men pushing hand carts fitted with old 42-gallon oil drums through the narrow alleyways of one of Kenya's most populous slums.



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