Bill Gates drinks water distilled from human faeces

The Microsoft founder said the water "tasted as good as any I've had out of a bottle"

Bill Gates has a glass of water produced from human excreta technology which he was drunk to present in developing countries clean water available.

Microsoft founder said he, after the send processing factories tests around the world wanted to start this year.

The project was supported by WaterAid, who said he was pleased to help especially in urban areas.

According to the charity, some 748 million people worldwide lack safe water.

In a video posted on his blog, Gates saw that human waste was introduced the final product of the glass in the processor before drinking.

'Sewer sludge'

"The water had a taste as good as any I have had the bottle. And for engineering studies behind, I would drink a day. It's so safe," he wrote in the blog.

In the video, the developer of the system Omniprocessor, Peter Janicki said the "sludge" crude is first boiled with vapor separated solid water.

These solids are then erase them in a fire, producing steam that drives a motor to generate energy for the system processor and the local community.

The water is subjected to a purification system for the production of drinking water.

"Why would anyone waste to turn it into drinking water and electricity?" Question Gates.

The answer, he says, because "diseases caused by poor sanitation kills about 700,000 children each year, and they avoid many fully develop mentally and physically."

He added: "If we realize to develop affordable way to dispose of human waste, we can prevent most of these deaths and more children grow up healthy."

Sustainable services

According to a report published by the World Health Organization and UNICEF in 2013, data from two years ago showed that 2.5 billion people lack world "Improved sanitation".

Figures WaterAid suggest that the number of people worldwide who lack access to safe drinking water dropped by nearly 20 million since.

The charity said the technology "are primarily benefit those who already have access to sanitation, not like the others."

"If the technology can be rolled on a scale that makes it viable for small investors or contractors, then this could be a catalyst for change in the plumbing landscape in urban areas of developing countries," said technical plumbing Support Manager Ada Oko -Williams,

WaterAid, said the introduction of this type of system could "facilitate the need to complete the sanitary cycle, through the creation of a market for the creation of sustainable services for the safe collection, transport, treatment , disposal and recycling is human waste. "

'Seed money'

Gates said the driver was going Omniprocessor in Senegal before the end of this year and hopes to soon after the filing of working plants in India and other countries begin.

"If we do it, is a good example of how philanthropy can start up capital, smart people on major issues to work or to create an independent industry attracts offer.

"Our goal is to fairly cheap processors that entrepreneurs will invest in themselves low and middle income, and start profitable waste management companies want to do."

But he acknowledged that "the history of philanthropy is well intentioned inventions ever to deliver his promise that covered," and added that he hoped the plan would be carried out on the project Omniprocessor mean they have this list not Sign.

The project was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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