To start of we should develop toilets (for the privileged ones) that uses less water to flush and use less of the precious water resource.
From: Rashad.M.Ramzan <rashad.ramzan@nu.edu.pk>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 9:16 AM
Subject: [pakgrid] Bill & Melinda Funding Opertunity: Effort to reinvent the toilet
Dear ALL,
"Effort to Reinvent the Toilet" Is this relevant to Pakistan? Yes!! How? Please read on.....
Water bed pollution is a big problem now .....in all semi-urban areas in Pakistan where septic tanks are used for the fermentation of the human waste. This problem is more pronounced where the water bed is less than 50 feet. With the increase of population, urbanization and under developed sewage treatment facilities , this problem will be a mega disaster in near future. Epidemic control will not be possible in case of septic water mixing with water bed, which is major source ofdrinking water.
It is high time for universities professors to get down from Impact Factor Camel and start looking in to real problems we face with innovative solutions. Here is a funding opportunity for research and innovation on this real issue we are facing right now in Pakistan.
Thanks and Best Regards
Rashad.M.Ramzan,PhD
Electrical Engineering
FAST-NU, Islamabad
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Dear Colleagues:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting innovators to send letters of inquiry for the following opportunity:
We are calling for a new set of innovative ideas to support our effort to reinvent the toilet. Grants will be awarded to exceptionally highly-qualified research groups interested in contributing to major advances in human sanitation in the developing world. These R&D efforts will comprise a new phase of the Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge: fast-paced designing, prototyping and demonstrating-in-operation of entirely stand-alone, self-contained, eminently-practical sanitation modules which intake bodily wastes and swiftly dispose of them definitively — without any incoming water piping, outgoing sewer piping or electric or gas utility services. These modules must intake all outputs of the serviced population — ultimately at single-residence scales — with minimal module footprints and assured biosafety. Thus, chemical and mechanical engineering approaches are preferred.
Letters of inquiry are being accepted online until Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. A full description of the topic and application instructions is available at http://www.gatesfoundation.org/reinvent-the-toilet-loi.
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