By Adekunle Adedosu
It might sound so odd and not many will believe it but water created from human poo is said to be very refreshing to the body.
According to reports, Microsoft founder, Bill Gates who is pictured above drinking water sourced from human waste, has backed a new hi-tech water plant than could bring clean water to Africa.
He backed a Seattle firm’s radical machine that uses a combination of steam and filters to convert human waste into water that is indistinguishable from bottled water in the end.
The new kind of low-cost waste treatment plant has been backed by the Gates Foundation and is about to be tested in Senegal for the first time.
According to him, ‘I watched the piles of faeces go up to the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin, they made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated. A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water. It tastes as good as anything I’ve drunk out of a bottle, and having studied the engineering behind it, I would happily drink it every day. It’s that safe.’
