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I would imagine the manual powered machine is intended for areas where electricity or water hookups aren't necessarily reliable or even available.

• baybal2 5y ago
  What about those billion dollar NGOs not funding Bill Gates'es space toilet, or these expensive PVC tanks with handles, but actually trying to do just something on the ground like building a power station?
  • burkaman 5y ago
    Before posting a question like this, why not take a few seconds to see if any NGOs are working on expanding access to electricity? I think you'll find there are quite a few. And why work so hard to find a negative angle on this story? There's plenty of actual bad stuff happening in the world for you to criticize.
    • baybal2 5y ago
      I am abhorred at an enormous spend on many vanity projects by the "development community," and hipster NGOs. That's why. I keep repeating a line about Bill Gates'es space toilet exactly because of it being the most glaring example of that. For the money spent, Bill could've easily built like 200-300 sewage treatment plants.
      • burkaman 5y ago
        I understand you're upset about that, but it's not productive to take out your frustration on unrelated stories like this, and ultimately it probably won't make you feel better.
      • anonymousab 5y ago
        Sometimes the blockers are not purely money-based, and greasing palms can do more harm than good. And sometimes you run out of palms to grease.