"Bill Gates Crowns Toilet Innovators At Sanitation Fair"

"This week, Bill Gates was at a summer fair in Washington State, but he was not eating deep-fried butter on-a-stick, or checking out livestock. Gates was inspecting cutting-edge toilet technology on display at an event his foundation hosted in Seattle — the Reinvent the Toilet Fair."

Michaeleen Doucleff reports for Shots, NPR's health blog, August 15, 2012.

SEE ALSO:

"Bill Gates Hosts Fair to Reinvent the Toilet [PICS]" (Mashable)

"Gates Foundation Makes Poop a Priority, Puts Toilet Innovation Front and Center" (Innovations/Washington Post)

"Can Gates Do for the Toilet What He Did for the Computer?" (Bloomberg)
 

Source: NPR, 08/16/2012