{"id":84670,"date":"2018-11-12T01:22:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T09:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/how-bill-gates-aims-to-save-233-billion"},"modified":"2018-11-12T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:17:07","slug":"how-bill-gates-aims-to-save-233-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/how-bill-gates-aims-to-save-233-billion","title":{"rendered":"How Bill Gates Aims to Save $233 Billion by Reinventing the Toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-bill-gates-aims-to-save-233-billion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates thinks toilets are a serious business, and he\u2019s betting big that a reinvention of this most essential of conveniences can save a half million lives and deliver $200 billion-plus in savings.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire philanthropist, whose Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation spent $200 million over seven years funding sanitation research, showcased some 20 novel toilet and sludge-processing designs that eliminate harmful pathogens and convert bodily waste into clean water and fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technologies you\u2019ll see here are the most significant advances in sanitation in nearly 200 years,\u201d Gates, 63, told the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-11-06\/bill-gates-aims-to-save-233-billion-by-reinventing-the-toilet\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018&#45;11&#45;06\/b...the-toilet<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates thinks toilets are a serious business, and he\u2019s betting big that a reinvention of this most essential of conveniences can save a half million lives and deliver $200 billion-plus in savings. The billionaire philanthropist, whose Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation spent $200 million over seven years funding sanitation research, showcased some 20 novel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84681,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84670\/revisions\/84681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}