The 2007 World Toilet Summit Expo is underway in New Delhi, India this week. Experts from around the world are sharing their ideas on how to solve a global problem; toilet sanitation. The United Nations reported that over 2.6 billion people (over half of them in India and China) live with no proper sewage sanitation. Rural areas that do not have don't have sanitation standards are at a high risk of being affected to diseases and other illnesses. The United Nations has set forth a call to reduce the number of proper sanitations in half by 2015.
At the expo some noteworthy companies like Sulobh International are displaying their public toilets that use the biogas produced by waste to run hot water heaters. Another display shows 14 year olds Masha Yazime's idea of properly disposing the waste accumulated on trains.
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wow that is really interesting......I wonder how they are going to solve the problem? maybe sending extra toilets from Japan,Canada,U.s.a,and other well treated states.