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Microsoft co-founder angry all-around philanthropist Bill Gates on Tuesday launched a look for a new toilet bigger ill-fitted to developing countries.

The accommodating foundation founded by Gates and his wife kicked off a "Reinvent the Toilet Fair" in Seattle and awarded prizes for able innovations.

"Toilets are acutely important for accessible bloom and, back you anticipate of it, alike animal dignity," Gates said in a account at thegatesnotes.com.

"The even toilets we use in the affluent apple are irrelevant, abstract and absurd for 40 percent of the all-around population, because they generally don't accept admission to water, and sewers, electricity, and carrion analysis systems."

The Toilet Fair was declared as a agitate of about 200 inventors, designers, investors, ally and others amorous about creating safe, effective, and bargain decay administration systems.

Universities from Britain, Canada, and the United States were awarded prizes in a antagonism launched a year ago arduous inventors to appear up with a bigger toilet.

First abode went to the California Institute of Technology for designing a solar-powered toilet that generates hydrogen gas and electricity.

Loughborough University came in additional for a toilet that transforms decay into biological charcoal, minerals, and apple-pie water.

Third abode went to the University of Toronto for a toilet that sanitizes animal decay and recovers minerals and water.

"Four in 10 bodies common don't accept a safe way to poop," the Gates Foundation said in a bulletin below a Reinvent the Toilet video at its gatesfoundation.org website.

Approximately 2.5 billion bodies common don't accept admission to safe sanitation systems for administration the basal and basic charge to actuate of actual waste, according to Gates.

"Beyond a catechism of animal dignity, this abridgement of admission additionally endangers people's lives, creates an bread-and-butter and a bloom accountability for poor communities, and hurts the environment," Gates said.

Food or baptize attenuated with begrimed amount causes abdominal diseases that annihilate 1.5 actor accouchement annually -- a amount college than deaths from AIDS and malaria combined, according to Gates.

"Inventing new toilets is one of the best important things we can do to abate adolescent deaths and ache and advance people's lives," Gates said.

"It is additionally article that can advice wealthier countries conserve beginning baptize for added important purposes besides flushing."