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 ...

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 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 ...

Prototypes of the winning design from the 2012 "Reinventing the Toilet Challenge" are now being tested in India. Caltech/Michael Hoffmann Globally, you might say that there is one household item that ...

An ergonomic carpet-weaving loom that discourages the use of child labor and an environmentally friendly toilet system that can turn waste into fertilizer were two of the ideas honored Wednesday for ...

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 ...

More than a quarter of all people—some 2.5 billion humans—still lack access to basic sanitation services. But thanks to this revolutionary solar-powered toilet, even the most remote throws of ...