Watch Bill Gates drink water that used to be human poop

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For years, the Gates Foundation has been looking for a machine that could make contaminated water safe to drink. More than 2.5 billion people on earth have no reliable access to clean drinking water, so the humanitarian implications of such a machine would be immense. With the Janicki Omniprocessor, the Gates Foundation thinks it's found the best way to do it, converting sewer sludge into water, electricity, and sterile ash that can be used as fertilizer. That system allows the Janicki operator to buy the sewer sludge at cost, and fund for the operation by selling electricity back to the grid. It's an ambitious plan, but the Gates Foundation may have the resources to make it work.


Still, they have to show it works first. To that end, the foundation made a video demonstrating all the steps of the process, culminating with Bill Gates himself drinking a glass from the machine, knowing that just five minutes earlier that water was sewage. Digg was even nice enough to put the moment in GIF form.

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Watch Bill Gates drink water that used to be human poop | The Verge
 

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Drink up, Bill...hehehe...

I hope this becomes available to those who really need it, and eventually maybe we can all use a system like it worldwide... Water is something we all take for granted...But what's this about paying for the sewage?
 

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It seems like an awesome machine to me. It runs on its own too, as it produces electricity with the waste that isn't turned into water. That's pretty neat! :)
 

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It's very neat, to say the least! :) I just hope it gets put to good use and helps those who need it, rather than it being invented for monetary gain, ya know?

I'm not so sure I'd be willing to try the water at first, though...Knowing it was raw sewage moments before...lol I'd have to watch others drink it first! :p
 

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