Kerala Sanitation projects Supported by Gates Foundation

7 April 2013
Thiruvananthapuram

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has committed to continue supporting sanitation projects in India and make the facility “affordable and accessible” for people.The Kerala-based ESS is Asia’s only recipient of Reinvent The Toilet Challenge (RTTC) grant of about Rs.3 crore extended by the BMGF.

Kone is here to analyse operations of ESS, which develops technically and economically viable futuristic toilets for use by common people. Till date, the organisation has successfully implemented close to 450 e-toilet projects in various parts of the country.An important challenge for the BMGF is to bring down the cost of sanitation technologies to make the facility more affordable and ESS is currently partnering with the University of South Florida to develop such technologies.

Source – http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=169732

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