Watch: Microsoft CEO Bill Gates drinks water from human waste
Omniprocessor is a machine designed and built by Janicki Bioenergy to purify water
Water, the most important ingredient of life on Earth is soon getting scarce. Reasons could be ranging from climate changes to pollution and wastage. Purifying water from the sea is one method that has been tried and tested in various countries.
Purifying water from human waste is a technology used in space and the ISS has been doing it for years. On Earth, water purification, for daily use, from human waste is pretty expensive. However, there is something in store for the future of humanity, and Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates, just proves that it can work.
In the video below, you can see Bill Gates drinking a glass of water filtered and purified just a few seconds before it was passed from a machine filled with human waste.
The Omniprocessor is an ingenious machine designed and built by Janicki Bioenergy, which can purify water from human waste. Not only does the machine turn human waste into pure water, it also generates electricity. The technology can be a game changer for countries where a good waste treatment plant isn’t available.
Bill Gates stated in an article, on his own blog, that the waste treatment plant was filled with human waste in front of his eyes and a few minutes later, he drank a glass of pure water that came out of it. In his own words, he said, “I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.”
The article mentions a lot about the processing plant—the facility burns human waste and produces water, electricity and a little ash. The facility is a part of the Gates Foundation as an effort to improve the sanitization in poor countries.
Gates mentioned that the water tasted similar to that right out of a bottle and after he studied the engineering behind it, he would be happy to drink it every day. He said, “its that safe”.
Bill Gates is eager to improve the sanitization in poor countries as “a shocking number of people, at least 2 billion, use latrines that aren’t properly drained. Others simply defecate out in the open. The waste contaminates drinking water for millions of people, with horrific consequences: Diseases caused by poor sanitation kill some 700,000 children every year, and they prevent many more from fully developing mentally and physically.”
Read more about what Bill Gates has to say about the technology and how it can change the future.