Editing Gates Foundation (section)

==== Examples of transformative technologies research ====
* About 200 sanitation projects in many different countries and at various scales – some with a technology focus, some with a focus on market development or policy and advocacy, have received funding from the foundation since 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.susana.org/en/resources/projects?vbl_2%5B%5D=&vbl_22%5B612%5D=612 |title=Projects, filtered by funding source Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |date=March 24, 2015 |access-date=March 24, 2015 |website=Sustainable Sanitation Alliance Website |archive-date=July 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726172937/https://www.susana.org/en/404-error-page-not-found |url-status=live }}</ref>
* The [[University of KwaZulu-Natal]] in Durban, South Africa Gates Foundation was awarded $1.6 million in 2014 to act as a hub for sanitation researchers and product developers.<ref name=":6">[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/26/residents-blame-durban-oil-refineries-for-health-problems Residents blame Durban oil refineries for health problems] The Guardian May 26, 2015</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database/Grants/2014/11/OPP1119939 |title=How we work, grant database (grant for UKZN) |access-date=May 27, 2015 |publisher=Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527110601/http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database/Grants/2014/11/OPP1119939 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* One example of an [[Omni-Processor]] is a [[combustion]]-based system designed to turn fecal sludge into energy and [[drinking water]]. The development of this particular prototype by U.S.-based company Janicki Bioenergy attracted media attention for the sanitation crisis and the work of the foundation after Bill Gates drank water produced from this process.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Omniprocessor-From-Poop-to-Potable |title=From poop to portable, This Ingenious Machine Turns Feces Into Drinking Water |date=January 5, 2015 |access-date=January 13, 2015 |website=gatesnotes, The Blog of Bill Gates |archive-date=January 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113004648/http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Omniprocessor-From-Poop-to-Potable |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Examples for the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge include: Scientists at the [[University of Colorado Boulder]] were given funding of $1.8 million to develop a prototype [[toilet]] that uses solar heat to treat the [[feces|fecal matter]] and produce [[biochar]].<ref>{{cite web |title=World's First Solar Powered Toilet to be unveiled in India this month |url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/03/worlds-first-solar-powered-toilet-to-be-unveiled-in-india-this-month/ |work=IANS |date=March 14, 2014 |publisher=news.biharprabha.com |access-date=March 14, 2014 |archive-date=March 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316051645/http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/03/worlds-first-solar-powered-toilet-to-be-unveiled-in-india-this-month/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database/Grants/2012/08/OPP1065047 |title=How we work, grant database (grant for Uni Colorado Boulder) |access-date=May 27, 2015 |publisher=Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |archive-date=July 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726173437/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants |url-status=live }}</ref> Funding has been provided to [[RTI International]] since 2012 to develop a toilet based on electrochemical disinfection and solid waste combustion.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Technology |url=http://abettertoilet.org/toilet-technologies/ |work=A Better Toilet For A Cleaner World |publisher=RTI International |access-date=March 17, 2014 |year=2014|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317082223/http://abettertoilet.org/toilet-technologies/ |archive-date=March 17, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database#q/k=RTI&issue=Water%2C%20Sanitation%2C%20and%20Hygiene |title=How we work, grant database (grants for RTI) |access-date=May 27, 2015 |publisher=Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |archive-date=April 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408212512/http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database#q/k=RTI&issue=Water%2C%20Sanitation%2C%20and%20Hygiene |url-status=live }}</ref>