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Toilet talk: meeting one of the world's grand challenges with innovation

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imageChildren in Ethiopia wash their hands outside a school latrine.Unicef Ethiopia, CC BY-NC

How is it possible that 2.4 billion people lack access to improved sanitation facilities in 2015?

While many westerners use their bathroom time as “me time,“ 40% of the world’s population may be pooping outdoors, in an unsanitary latrine, or in...

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