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A team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder are in India this week showing off their solar-powered toilet at a "toilet fair."
The team received $1.7 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build a prototype, “next-generation” toilet as part of the foundation’s "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge."
The goal is to develop a toilet that will disinfect liquid and solid waste and generate useful end-products, according to Karl Linden, professor of environmental engineering…