Bill Gates is on a '10-year quest' to reinvent the toilet — and he says his work at Microsoft gave him the inspiration to do it

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February 7, 2018 6:07 PM

Gates has backed the Nano Membrane Toilet, which he says could provide clean bathroom facilities to the over 2 billion people who lack access to running water.

Bill Gates wants to reinvent the toilet for over 2 billion people who lack access to clean water.
His foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has backed a waterless toilet, called The Nano Membrane Toilet.
Gates hopes to install the toilet in poor urban areas — before he scales it out to rural areas.

Bill Gates is on a mission to reinvent the way huge swaths of the world's population go to the bathroom.

And he credits his time at the helm of Microsoft for giving him the "bullheadedness" to do it, according to a recent interview with psychologist Steven Pinker in The New York Times.

Through his foundation, the

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