Gates Foundation Leads with "Disruptive" Wastewater Technologies
Valerie Nelson Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at 09:39AM The Gates Foundation has announced eight awards to universities in its "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge". Each research group is working on a toilet that requires no piped-in water, electricity, or sewer connection. I attended the June 6th Cascadia Green Building Council conference, "Come Rain/Shine" in Seattle, and asked Frank Rijsberman of the Foundation whether he thought these techniques they were developing for Africa will be applied in the United States. Rijsberman didn't think so. But, in this news story, the U.S. military and rural water advocates do see a role for cheaper and better approaches than sewers. Why not? "Disruptive" technologies invade U.S. markets all the time with new designs from developing countries at a fraction of the cost of the technologies we have used here. This can happen with wastewater as well, but we all need to work together to find pilot sites and flexible regulators.
See Rijsberman's presentation at the Seattle workshop, and this news story following the Foundation announcement of grants.
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