Toilets may get better and cheaper, but would people use them?

August 24, 2012

Ankur Sohanpal

Clean cookstoves could potentially reduce the almost 2 million people who die of indoor air pollution due to polluting cookstoves, yet their low adoption rates are something that the Gates Foundation, on an offensive to land the cheap and developing-country-usable toilets, could learn from. New developmental changes like these usually require software changes in the behaviour of recipients as well. Read more here.