A toilet project that addresses environmental and health concerns was unveiled in Delhi, India this month. Around 2.5 billion people in the world lack proper sanitation, and it’s with those people in ...

CU-Boulder postdoctoral researcher Tesfayohanes Yakob, left, and research engineer Dana Haushulz are shown here with a novel solar-thermal toilet developed by a team led by CU-Boulder Professor Karl ...

The trick has the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation applauding. They awarded the $770,000 grant to the team in 2012, followed up with another million last year and unveiled the SolChar at their Reinvent ...

A team of Caltech engineers is working on the toilet of tomorrow — a self-cleaning, solar-powered toilet that turns human waste into hydrogen and fertilizer, according to FastCoExist. The low-cost, ...

The new toilet is targeted for countries without sewers and steady power. March 14, 2014— -- Most people probably don't think of recycling the things they flush down the toilet. Karl Linden, a ...

SEATTLE — Bill Gates is betting the toilet of the future for the developing world will be solar powered. The world’s leading private philanthropist handed a $100,000 prize to the California Institute ...

The flush toilet is sanitary, convenient -- and needs lots of water. The problem is, that design only works if you have a functioning sewage system and access to a steady water supply. Those ...

A waterless toilet that is run by solar energy and converts excreta into a form of charcoal will be unveiled next week in India where over 626 million people don’t have a closed toilet and ...

A scientist is planning to incorporate with solar-powered water treatment technology into a portable toilet. Michael Hoffmann at the California Institute of Technology found that sunlight powers an ...

The Reinvent the Toilet Challenge asked engineers to dream up a replacement for the antiquated flush toilet. Michael Hoffmann and his team at Caltech responded with a solar-powered toilet that ...

Imphal (Manipur) [India] May 26(ANI): Manipur has become the first state in the Northeast and the third state in India to have solar toilets, which were inaugurated at Ibudhou Marjing hill Heingang by ...