Bill Gates wasn’t sniffing “poop” for nothing.
As the billionaire philanthropist explains in a recent Gates Notes blog post, he recently spent time smelling an artificial scent of feces in Geneva, Switzerland as part of a plan to help people in poor areas have an easier time using the bathroom.
In India and other poor countries, sanitation continues to be a problem — some 800,000 children under 5 die annually from diarrhea or other sanitation-related ailments.
