Scientists sent people to the moon. Can they reinvent the toilet?

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Shannon Yee, a Georgia Tech engineering professor, was in South Africa in August looking over sanitation systems and prototypes of self-contained toilets that process the waste inside the units. Courtesy of Shannon Yee

A globe-trotting team of researchers have been given a $13.5 million budget and 39 months to sort through the prototypes and remaining challenges of the Gates Foundation Reinvent the Toilet Challenge.

Scientists sent people to the moon. Can they reinvent the toilet?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution