Because Bill Gates arrived in China with a jar filled with excrement

Bll Gates captures the public attention of China International Expo with a flagrant gesture but with a very deep meaning. On stage, the founder of Microsoft brought a pot filled with excrement. "I must admit that 10 years ago, I had never imagined becoming so expert on the pupu. And certainly I would never have thought that Melinda had told me to stop talking at the bathtubs and faecal mud table"He ironed Gates in front of the stunned audience (watch the video).

But the gesture of the American billionaire and philanthropist has a meaning far superior to what one might think. Because Bill Gates wanted to sound the alarm to all people who do not have access to health services. A real scourge for many countries of the world. As explained by the founder of Microsoft, a jar of excrement can contain "up to 200 billion parallel bars, 20 billion Shigella bacteria and 100,000 parasitic worm eggs". According to data from the World Health Organization, about 2.3 billion people worldwide are exposed to cholera, diarrhea and dysentery because they do not have access to health services.

A problem also felt by the same China, since President Xi Jinping has placed the so-called "agenda" on his government's agendatoilet revolution". That's why the event was organized by Gates with his wife, Melinda, head of the Bill & Melinda Foundation, which looks after research and humanitarian badistance .

The foundation has long since launched a fundraising campaign to help people who do not have access to health services. It spent about $ 200 million in seven years on scientific research for the production of new toilets. "It is no longer a question of reinventing toilets and other health systems. It's about seeing how fast this new category of solutions will spread", Announced the philanthropist, as he explains. La Stampa, the bathroom Futuristic presented by Bill Gates will work like this: "faeces and urine are packed in an under – floor container. A photovoltaic panel gives energy to a biochemical reactor that purifies the waste through the use of electrodes. An electrochemical reaction breaks down the material into distinct components, such as hydrogen, fertilizers, and pure water"From there, other parts of the support will be used to reuse individual products, and the Chinese government seems particularly interested.