Well the World Toilet Summit just ended in Beijing,
Lots of talk about improving public toilets but hwat really caught my attention is the fact that more than 1 billion people don't have anything other than a hole in the ground or the nearby river. Not that these are bad but given the amount of people alive today, you are almost certainly talking about a cholera powder keg waiting to explode. Millions of kids die of diarrhoea every year and the cause unclean water due to the lack of sanitation. Clean water and samitation is intimately liked though both are considered seprate basic needs yet billions are with.
So this is the problem. Now these are the parameters. A lot of the times people go in build great toilets and they degenerate because there is no maintenance, so there must a low-maintenece design. Second parameter cost. Like if people will spend billions to build a stupid tower butnot millions to fund people like Li Yit to design somekind of cheap low-maintence toilets what are the chances they wil fund its building. Thrid parameter focus. We always want to do everything but I guess we will more efficient if we are focus on one purpose.
So now here are the solutions. We start funding research to people like to Li Yit to design cheap but durable and easily maintained toilets and set up a focused organisation to the name of the United Toilet-Diggers of Malaysia to build these toilets on the cheap. And of course it will be under the umbrella organisation of the FDL.