Africa: A New Loo - Gaze Into the Toilet Bowl of the Future

Despite our complicated relationship with it, our poo could one day power our cell phones, tablets and laptops.

Eleonore Rartjarasoaniony stands in the middle of her yard, watching two young men in colourful overalls and rubber boots service her new waterless Loowatt toilet, which replaced her pit latrine a few months ago. At the Malagasy woman’s feet, two lean, long-legged chickens, amid a flock of fluffy chicks, peck at anything remotely resembling food.

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