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Poop in hand, Bill Gates backs China's toilet revolution
AFP ^ | 11/06/2018 | AFP

Posted on 11/06/2018 5:56:23 AM PST by listenhillary

As one of the world's richest men and most active philanthropists, Bill Gates usually has his hands full. Just not with poop.

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1 posted on 11/06/2018 5:56:23 AM PST by listenhillary
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To: listenhillary

What’s really impressive is that stat on India.

A major success from Modi.


2 posted on 11/06/2018 5:59:02 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: listenhillary

So when the Chinese take a dump, from now on every time they sit on the pot Cortana asks, “How can I help you?” and then sends a picture of their posterior to the NSA?


3 posted on 11/06/2018 6:04:48 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: listenhillary

“Poop in hand, Bill Gates backs China’s toilet revolution”

A turd in the hand is better than poo in the bushes.


4 posted on 11/06/2018 6:06:40 AM PST by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: piasa

Whole new meaning for “Chinese takeout”.


5 posted on 11/06/2018 6:07:48 AM PST by ameribbean expat (Socialism is like a nude beach - - sounds great til you actually get there. -ntnt- David Burge.)
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To: listenhillary

Latrines have been around and used for centuries. Don’t they know how to make and use them?

Guess not:

https://www.chinasmack.com/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions


6 posted on 11/06/2018 6:12:45 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: listenhillary
Something worthwhile

While Bill Gates is a liberal, his pet causes and projects are usually less malignant than those of Mark Zuckerberg, the late Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, and most other billionaire philanthropists.

7 posted on 11/06/2018 6:13:17 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: listenhillary

I wonder what kind of toilets they are working to install. The sit-down kind, or the ones where one has to squat and risk getting stuff all over their feet?


8 posted on 11/06/2018 6:14:17 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: listenhillary

I wonder how his “nonsewerd solutions” work. Also, well run municipal sewers and sewage processing plants can be significant economic assets by turning human waste into valuable fuel and fertilizer. The fuel is in the form of large quantities of methane that is far cleaner and easier to use than coal. Processed sludge can be a valuable and safe form of fertilizer, as in Milorganite, a sludge based fertilizer sold by Milwaukee.


9 posted on 11/06/2018 6:17:13 AM PST by libstripper
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They’ve been putting composting toilets in RV’s for a few years. I’ve heard they work pretty well, but they could have been just sh8tting me.


10 posted on 11/06/2018 6:20:45 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: libstripper

They just assign everyone a rotating spot in the fields and cut out the middleman.


11 posted on 11/06/2018 6:25:20 AM PST by CurlyDave
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To: listenhillary

He and his foundation have been pooping up our education system and injecting abortion filth into other countries for many years. Finally, he is doing something useful with his money.


12 posted on 11/06/2018 6:26:06 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("The word 'racist' is used to describe 'every Republican that's winning'" --Donald Trump)
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To: layman

Hu Flung Poo


13 posted on 11/06/2018 6:27:39 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("itYou can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: listenhillary

A few years back I did a little research for a cousin on composting toilets who was interested in them. Turns out they are really disgusting things that require constant maintenance. Since I’ve owned a cruising sailboat and still own a power cruiser, I’ve become familiar with holding tanks and toilet chemical. As far as I’m concerned, they’re the way to go, as long as there are available pump out facilities. Indeed, an excellent piece of legislation is to require all overnight marinas and RV campgrounds to have adequate pump out facilities.


14 posted on 11/06/2018 6:32:18 AM PST by libstripper
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To: listenhillary

“They’ve been putting composting toilets in RV’s for a few years”

What’s the point? You have to dump the tanks anyway. All campgrounds have dump stations.


15 posted on 11/06/2018 6:39:03 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

You’ve got me. Maybe they boon dock and it makes them feel better about just dumping gray water on the ground?


16 posted on 11/06/2018 6:50:43 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: carriage_hill

Guess they’ve never watched a cat dig a hole and cover it up when done.

I’ve seen pics of India and it’s the worst. People bathing in the river while in the same pic, someone taking a dump in the river.


17 posted on 11/06/2018 7:01:12 AM PST by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: listenhillary

Meanwhile, there’s San Francisco.


18 posted on 11/06/2018 7:13:37 AM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: listenhillary

We have a small RV. A Rialta. We never poop in it. Mr. Mercat always uses a dump station.


19 posted on 11/06/2018 7:36:09 AM PST by Mercat
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To: Pollard

Good analogy; I’ve had cats all my life, so I know that visual.

“People bathing in the river while in the same pic, someone taking a dump in the river.”

Or a human corpse or animal floating downstream.


20 posted on 11/06/2018 8:52:05 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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