Research grants for improved toilets bring memories of foreign travel

So Bill Gates is going to put up the dough for research grants to scientists to come up with a better toilet than what we’ve got now.

He believes better sanitation is needed in developing countries to help slow the spread of disease. I don’t know how much our resident zillionaire knows about toilet facilities in developing countries since I am sure he stayed at the best hotels when he visited.

An ordinary flush toilet like the ones most of us have on account of we haven’t switched to the ones that use less water would be a vast improvement in places I’ve been.

I have traveled in countries, mos...