Billionaire Bill Gates traveled to Brussels on Monday to tour the Belgian capital’s sewer system to celebrate World Toilet Day.
Gates shared a video of his visit to the Brussels Sewer Museum.
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On World Toilet Day, a video shared by Bill Gates showed the co-founder of Microsoft going down a sewer to visit the Sewer Museum in Brussels#billgates #brussels #sewermuseum #worldtoiletday #viral #microsoft pic.twitter.com/EMkK3EIBUv
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“It stinks, and there are rats,” Gates said before pointing to the scientific research that happens in the sewer system.
A impressed Gates concludes, “Thank you, Brussels, for highlighting this unique side of a great city.”
Bill Gates, however, was mocked on X for celbrating World Toilet Day with many saying he should remain in the sewers.
Bill Gates in the sewers of Brussels.
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On the occasion of World Toilet Day, American billionaire Bill Gates descended into the sewers of Brussels to explore its hidden history pic.twitter.com/scKJKBUuep
If he could stay there the world would be better..
— Goomiesødîî (@GoomiesDii) November 22, 2023
Finally he found the perfect place where he belongs. 💩🕳️
— Yara (@Yararawiya) November 22, 2023
This is not the first time Gates has voiced interest in human waste.
In 2015, he posted a video of himself at a waste processor, drinking the product of what had been, five minutes earlier, human feces.
“It’s water!” he exclaimed after taking a sip.
As Breitbart reported, the video was made after Gates visited a facility in Washington state that burns human waste to produce water, electricity, and ash.
The Omni Processor, a Gates Foundation project, is designed to address the problem of poor sanitation facing many poor countries by taking human waste out of streets and streams and turning it into something useful.
Gates’ visit comes months after California’s State Water Resources Control Board proposed new regulations allowing toilet wastewater to be turned into drinking water.
The new “toilet-to-tap” program aims to tackle the state’s water shortages.
In a statement, the board said:
[T]he State Water Resources Control Board announced today proposed regulations that would allow for water systems to add wastewater that has been treated to levels meeting or exceeding all drinking water standards to their potable supplies. The process, known as direct potable reuse, will enable systems to generate a climate-resilient water source while reducing the amount of wastewater they release to rivers and the ocean
Direct potable reuse relies entirely on immediate, multi-barrier treatment that can recycle wastewater to drinking water standards in a matter of hours.
This contrasts to the method currently being deployed in major projects launched throughout the state, called indirect potable reuse, which further improves treated wastewater over time through groundwater recharge or dilution with surface water.
While no formal direct potable reuse projects can be initiated in California until the regulations are adopted, water agencies in Santa Clara, San Diego, and the city of Los Angeles have launched pilot projects in recent years.
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