Bill Gates meets with Lee Jae-yong in South Korea, and the cooperative "Samsung bathroom" is about to be mass produced.
Beijing time August 25 news, Samsung and Gates jointly promoted the "toilet project" in Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province, Samsung Comprehensive Technical Institute held a completion ceremony. It is understood that the Gates Foundation plans to provide mass-produced Samsung bathrooms to less developed countries with serious water shortage and fecal pollution, and Samsung will allow these countries to use the relevant technology free of charge in the commercial process.
It is understood that Lee Jae-yong met with Bill Gates, who visited South Korea on the 16th, and the two sides shared the results of the project and exchanged views on global social feedback activities.
It is understood that Bill Gates went to South Korea to strengthen anti-epidemic cooperation with South Korea.
Earlier, Gates said in a statement: "toilets are extremely important to public health, it is even related to human dignity."
According to the Gates Foundation, in less developed countries that lack water resources and sewage treatment facilities, about 900 million people go to the toilet in the open, resulting in water pollution that causes more than 360000 children under the age of 5 to die each year from infectious diseases such as dysentery.
It is reported that after three years of research and development, Samsung has successfully mastered the ability to drive efficient energy use, drainage and purification, and meet the technical standards set by the foundation for greenhouse gas emission reduction, durability improvement, toilet miniaturization and so on. Samsung uses heat treatment technology and biotechnology to achieve 100% recycled water, and on this basis to develop 10-person, 5-person innovative household toilet, and recently completed the use test.
