Bill Gates wants more toilets for developing nations

Bill Gates was in Beijing recently where he addressed a large gathering and spoke about his concern for lack of toilets in developing nations around the world. It is one of the major problems facing them.

“In places without sanitation you have got way more than that,” Gates said, pointing to the faces inside the clear canister resting on a table.

“And that’s what kids when they are out playing, they are being exposed to all the time, and that’s why we connect this not just with quality of life, but with disease and death and with malnutrition,” he told attendees.

The billionaire has used part of his considerable fortune to provide clean, comfortable and hygienic toilets in the poorest of the poor countries.

Gates was in Beijing on Tuesday for the “Reinvented Toilet Expo”, a forum hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation showcasing various cutting edge toilet technologies in lieu of sewers, making them easier and cheaper to install the devices.

The world’s number two economy is in the midst of a drive to improve its notoriously malodorous bathrooms a campaign President Xi Jinping has dubbed the “toilet revolution.”

“China has made great progress in improving health and sanitation for millions of people,” Gates said.