{"id":1458,"date":"2015-03-12T14:50:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T14:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2015-04-16T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T19:14:31","slug":"waste-to-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/waste-to-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste to Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, and the world’s richest man, is known for changing how the world operates and functions. The mission of\u00a0his non-profit, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>,\u00a0is to give all people the chance to live a healthy and productive life. To this end, during the mid-1990s, Bill Gates\u00a0gave computers to\u00a0libraries and schools, which made sense for the world’s largest software owner.\u00a0But how\u00a0did Bill Gates becomes interested in poop? Yes…human excrement. His\u00a0philanthropic organization\u00a0granted money to Janicki Bioenergy to build\u00a0the OmniProcessor, a machine which transforms\u00a0fecal sludge and solid waste into water and electricity. In places without\u00a0treatment plants or clean water,\u00a0the technology\u00a0could be a low-cost\u00a0solution to quench the world’s thirst.<\/p>\n

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Bill Gates explains the process in this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n

American Chemical Society. “Converting Sewage Into Drinking Water: Wave Of The Future?”\u00a0ScienceDaily, 30 January 2008<\/a>. Source: TechStreet<\/a><\/p>\n

American Water Works Association. Security Practices for Operation and Management. AWWA G430-14 November 1, 2014 <\/a><\/p>\n

Bill Gates’ latest passion: a machine that turns poop into water by Todd Wasserman.\u00a0Mashable, January 6, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n

Bill Gates 2.0 by 60 Minutes. CBS News, May 14, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

Career Opportunities<\/a> at Janicki Bioenergy<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Enviornmental Protection Agency. Current Drinking Water Regulations<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\u00a0Drinking Water Contaminants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, and the world’s richest man, is known for changing how the world operates and functions. The mission of\u00a0his non-profit, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,\u00a0is to give all people the chance to live a healthy and productive life. To this end, during the mid-1990s, Bill Gates\u00a0gave computers to\u00a0libraries and schools,Continue reading “Waste to Water”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}