congratulations to the team of advertising & marketing audiovisual who designed this teaser. so simple but it is something you can not stop looking.

I lost it at "Let's get our sh*t together, and do it."

Some people just want to put others down, no matter how much good they try to do. This guy and his wife are practically saving the world on their own. You go, Bill!

this is probably the most serious and professional way this issue could have been addressed. and it is AWESOME XD

A really good idea. But I believe it would be really useful if they included two things (no pun intended) in the video: 1.- what are the requirements for the new toilet they are looking for. (maximum cost, minimum comfort, infrastructure limits, etc). 2.- How can we, as a public help (aside from donations).

This video is excellent. I love how they embrace the topic.

Great video/animation. 8 people like wasting their poop.

best - youtube - video - EVAR!!!

Best ad ever!

For the Reinvent the Toilet Contest I am recommending the following: I would get three 5 gallon buckets. One for Pee, one for Poo & one with saw dust or dried leaves, rice husks, etc. I would also keep some home made seed soap handy so I can wash my hands after doing my business. Add a cup of saw dust to the container with the Poo to kill the odor. Nota Bene: create a compost ditch away from running water & dump the bucket with Poo & saw dust. Til regularly so it turns into healthy soil. The bucket with Pee should be sprinkled on the soil early in the morning. Pee has lots of nitrogen & is healthy for plants! : ) PS: Please share & help safe a life!!

This is great. Wish there was a little more technical information behind it. Thanks Bill and Melinda for all you are doing!

"...which requires massive amounts of sewer infrastructure, and immense amounts of water; two things increasingly hard to come by" - sewer infrastructure, a very scarce resource on planet earth!

He donated billions of dollars to charity throughout his life. Seems like he cares, and is a good man!

Love your creativity !

Amazing idea, this could potentially revolutionize the disease situation in undeveloped and developing counties.

that's how the world starts to actually CHANGE. great!

Spending $50 billion is no easy task, takes some ingenuity and imagination.

Excellent Vid! And so true! The way we waste so much in disposing of our waste really stinks! We must learn to squeeze as much out of our resources as possible, even if it cramps our style! I hope to live to see the day when this serious problem is wiped clean from our 'to doo-doo' list. Hey, we could sponsor a post season college football classic: The Tidy Bowl!

Great idea. Save 2.6 billion people, so they can create 5.2 billion new problems.

Good sewer infrastructure is really a must in all countries, if there's a way we can reinvent our toilets hen I think we should do it and make something beneficial out of our wastes

Whatever gets him out his school reform phase (aka, making things worse for our public schools), I'm a fan of. It seems like Bill does good work with health related issues. Good luck.

I love it.

"Let's get our shit together and do it." Fucking lol

This shit is serious. Awesome video!

cool edit and script

actually, you doing it right now. We eat molecules, that were crap millions of times during the existance of earth

now doodoo can be remade into food with the toilet of the future

@vikula1 What is funny is that if you are drinking municipal water than you are already drinking "that" crappy water!! It goes to the waste district that cleans the "waste" from the liquids, sends it through a couple of filters, and then right back into the drinking water system!!! Enjoy!

This is as simple as connecting a ultrasonic tank to the output of the toilet and water pumps. Of course implementing a UV lighting while the lid is down more logical also.. So in other words the “modern toilet” would simply be a two stage tank system, (1). Clearly being the top tank using existing laws of motion forcing water down for flushing and refilling (2). 2nd tank below for ultrasonic cleaning of the waste prior to emitting into the sewer system. And that’s how we live long and prosper 🖖

we need for america to do so much more to bring clean water and sanitation to the worlds people asap we can and should invest much more money and resources to make that happen.

@Shatteredcraft Sanitation is, in fact, more important than food here. I'm sure you know the four basic human needs are air, water, food, and shelter, in that order. With poor sanitation, waste materials are actually getting into and severely polluting people's water supplies, to the point where massive disease outbreaks like cholera are spreading through the water supply. Unlike food, water is far too heavy and used too much to be sustainably trucked in.

Important message

Let's get our $#!% together and do it!

"lets get our shit together and do it" Rofl!!!!!!!!

"lets get our shit together and do it... LLOOOOLLL

lol her voice really catches me off guard when she swears.

Dear Bill, I want to see how human waste can be transformed to fertilizer, charcoal and more energy. I believe in human ability to bring a reality.

@Cleuq yes it does. a problem has been identified and made known. the b&mg foundation is donating $42 million for research so smart peoples can rethink toilet design for the reasons stated in the video. the smart peoples are doing it. "LET'S DO THIS" constitutes motivation, initiate, drive, and passion, all of which are necessary to solve today's major problems.

SO LETS GET OUR SHIT TOGETHER WTF LOL!!!!!!! 1:22

Gates Foundation, please take a look at JETS vacuum toilets used in ships worldwide. Immense amounts of water is saved, and it is easier to maintain, and harder to clog, than the regular flush system.

If a kid in India can make solar panels out of human hair (cheap) and Dean Kamen can make a cheap water filtration system (he's got it planned), I'd imagine it would be a matter of distribution to a central point for processing.

THE FIRST 10 seconds and the end made me laugh lolol

I think that's very great ^^

I watched this in Economics today hehe

I do believe in this MARVEL of reinvent toilet

Let's get our shit together, and do it! hahahaha

@swoganrich Is it congenital or as the result of a head injury?

@rorkimaru An AWWA study published in 1999 called Residential End Uses of Water puts toilet water consumption at about 27% of indoor use (per capita)... the study included 1,188 homes located in 14 cities in the US and Canada over 2 years

What program do i have to install into my toilet so it can do that? Naa just kidding, what a great idea!

@LoneSeraph2100 I would add that, back then, people were responding to an aesthetic distaste for poo, without any knowledge of the harmful bacteriological qualities. Similarly, many of the people whom this video is speaking about live in cultures where pooping still happens openly because it's not considered a shameful thing; on the other hand, shame was what first taught us to poop in flush toilets. The understanding that mismanaged poo could kill us came later.

1:12 WAIT, WE'VE BEEN DRINKING POOP THIS WHOLE TIME?!

Do we have a status update on this?

Let's get our shit together hahahaha

right, agree. :)

That's ideal but prohibitively expensive for a lot of those places. Basic composting toilets (not this hi-tech stuff) will keep sewage out of the groundwater and the rivers where they get their drinking water from. I don't know why more people aren't recommending something like the humanure diy toilets.

Looks like the work of Duarte.

Here’s how the urine-powered generator works, as explained by the blog on the makerfaireafrica.com website: • Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen. • The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, and then into a gas cylinder, which looks similar to the kind used for outdoor barbecue grills. • The gas cylinder pushes the filtered hydrogen into another cylinder that contains liquid borax, in order to remove moisture from the gas. Borax is a natural mineral, commonly used in laundry detergent. • The hydrogen is pushed into a power generator in the final step of the process. A big drawback is that hydrogen poses an explosion risk. But the girls used one-way valves throughout the device as a safety measure. The idea of using urine as fuel is not new. The girls have come up with a practical way to put the idea into action, though. Their method for using urine to power a generator is one the average household can appreciate. Power generators are used far more often in Africa than here, where they are relegated more to emergency use, as in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The Maker Faire Africa blog says power outages happen multiple times a day in Lagos, so all those who can afford a backup generator have one. Still, technology needs to evolve further before such a system is feasible, at least as far as applications like powering generators go. www.forbes.com/sites/matthewdepaula/2012/11/08/teens-create-a-way-to-use-urine-as-fuel/

And I am saying this as a moderate who reads unbiased research.

I don't think it's the toilet that needs re-inventing so much as the septic system. There is potential to add a methane collection system and soil processor.

Why 240p not 720p or 1080p

let's get our shit together and do it. now that's what i'm talkin' 'bout.

This is great and overdue! For everybody who is really interested in a sustainable life, I also recommend to read about the "cradle-to-cradle" model > wikipedia > "Cradle-to-cradle"

This is exactly why I keep mine bagged up in the closet.

I thought it was an ad for Vista at first.

where is the HD version in 2011 ? :)

what like pressurizing the bowl to force it down the pipe somehow..?

@vikula1 *whispers* you already do. What do you think water treatment plants do? Even if its a two plant system it's still the same water

I have invented a toilet that turns poop into M&M's , i will submit my discovery to Bill Gates and have it patented immediately.

It sounds silly but this is a crucial issue. In the western world over 50% of your water usage can be from flushing the toilet alone.

Saw this at brightwater

Let's get our shit together and do it.... HAHA

you already do

what is the name of this type of video? (with this type of animation)

No waste : )

@LoneSeraph2100 Ancient cities that had plumbing were advanced for their time. What you are saying is basically is if somewhere didn't have a tv, why are they bothering to watch crappy performance put on by the locals. They have no choice, there is no option, they can't get electricity, they can't afford the tv etc. How can you possibly think that this is bad. Also, it is pretty hard to do certain things when water is short and food is scarce and disease is all around.

@Cleuq except its a 42-47 mln dollar competition to create a solution to the problem. "LETS DO THIS!!" is the purpose of the video.

that shit cray

You didn't know? It's the key ingredient in Budweiser!

the poop of the world, the power of the future!

@plutoend99 No! It's the toilet the want to reinvent. They want toilets that is'nt dependent on sewage systems.

I think I've reinvented the toilet in my pants from watching this.

I've heard about people eating shit but drinking it? NO!

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I wonder whether the Gates have read The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins?

One of the most beneficial things wealthy philanthropists could do for humanity would be to create a billion dollar prize for anyone who can find a cost effective way to desalinate sea water. (By "cost effective" I mean competitive with the watershed in temperate climates. Also, disposal of waste brine would have to be figured in.) Look at how much more land would become arable if we had this. They say that in the next century water will become more precious than oil.

Regardless of what you think of the Windows OS, Bill Gates is a forward thinker.

its called an outhouse ?

@DIECARS1 A company called Loaded Pictures.

"let's get our shit together and do it"

lol lets get our shit together, and do it

so good that the gates foundation sponsors barca and they used KaKa as a word for shit. i know it is a real word, but it looks like theyve put the accents in the word as well

@sharx013 well said

There's probably an app for it in the istore

So....where is this new toilet?

Well that was something else..

okay, how?

As a sewer worker.. goodbye my job..

Not just human shit in rivers, it's livetsock, wild life...

Well, I am not getting rid of my toilet until something is in place and being used all over. Not like cutting off drilling for oil and yet hardly enough affordable electric cars.

my school got an angry letter from my mom after our class saw this video....