Besides being the richest man in the world, Gates is known throughout the globe for being the person who probably gives the most money to charity and to research that could allow people in impoverished nations to lead a better life; now, the latest Bill Gates water project sees human waste turned into drinkable H2O.
It's certainly daring to put out a project that's basically offering drinkable water made out of human waste, but that's just exactly what the latest Bill Gates water philanthropic development is all about, as he posted the details in his YouTube channel, thegatesnotes.
According to BBC News, the Bill Gates water project became news earlier this week, as the billionaire - constantly ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the entire world - posted a video of himself drinking water from a processing plant that turns human feces into drinkable water, which could be a way to alleviate problems in developing nations across the planet.
The machine is called the OmniProcessor, and it purifies human waste for consumption using boilers, steam power and a very rigid filtration process to turn fecal matter into water after only a few minutes.
Of course, it didn't take the Internet long until the Bill Gates water project became a worldwide trending topic, in both social media and search engines, as NDTV reports; many people took to Twitter to discuss how Gates had turned "poop" into water.
In any case, as CTV News reports, the video goes to show that Gates, quite literally, is willing to put his mouth where his money is, as it is unlikely that a great number of billionaires would be willing to taste water that had been human waste less than five minutes before.
"I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt and drop into a large bin," wrote the billionaire about the Bill Gates water-converting process on his blog. "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."
