World Toilet Day was noticed on November 19

American billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates lately mirrored on a few of the unusual issues he has carried out in his life, in a LinkedIn submit. The 67-year-old billionaire took to the skilled networking website, to mark a submit about World Toilet Day which was noticed on November 19. Mr Gates admitted he is carried out some ”bizarre cr*p’ in his life” – from ingesting ‘water from faecal sludge’ to ”sharing a stage with human faeces. ”

The Microsoft co-founder wrote: “I’ve done some weird crap over the years: I drank water from fecal sludge with Jimmy Fallon, shared the stage with a jar of human feces, and smelled pit latrine odor.” However, all these acts have been truly for a noble trigger, because the submit additional reveals.  

“These antics got a few laughs, but my goal has always been to get people to care about an issue that impacts 3.6 billion people: poor sanitation,” the philanthropist added. “Thanks to scientists and engineers from around the world, we’re getting closer to new solutions that will prevent disease and illness.”

See the submit right here:

The submit additionally links to a blog post from July 2021, which talks about new sanitation options in wake of the rising inhabitants. In the weblog submit, he defined how, 10 years in the past, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had “challenged the world to reinvent the toilet”.

In order to lift consciousness, Mr Gates had taken half in a wide range of public stunts, like ingesting water from “fecal sludge” in 2015. He had even satisfied TV host Jimmy Fallon to do the identical, in a bid to advertise the Omniprocessor, a machine that turns faeces into water and electrical energy.

“I watched the piles of faeces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin. They made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated,” Gates mentioned on the time. A couple of minutes later I took an extended style of the top outcome: a glass of scrumptious ingesting water, ” a post by GatesNotes reads.

A 12 months, later in 2016, he posted an image of himself taking a giant whiff of pit latrine odour. He mentioned “the stench was foul and made me wince,” and described the scent as “a combination of sewage stink, barnyard sweat, and bitter ammonia topped off with vomit (or was it parmesan cheese?).”

In 2018, the billionaire shared the stage with a beaker of poop throughout a speech on the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing.  “I used a beaker of poop as a prop during my speech at the Reinvented Toilet Expo in Beijing. It caused some giggles in the crowd – but I brought it out to draw attention to a serious issue that kills more than 500,000 people every year: poor sanitation,” another GatesNotes post reads.

The philanthropist is dedicated to fixing a wide range of international points via his and his ex-wife’s charity The Bill and Melinda Gates basis.