Giving Compass' Take:

• Around the world, communities face unequal access to sanitation. An incredibly innovative toilet was recently unveiled by Bill Gates, which promises to impact public health in developing countries and rural communities. 

• How can we fund more projects and create useful designs for WASH? What would make these innovations more accessible?

• Here's another example of organizations trying to help global sanitation through toilets. 

Bill Gates just revealed a revolutionary toilet design that can operate off-the-grid — and could help bring quality sanitation to communities around the world, Reuters reports.

Gates presented the innovative design to a large audience at the Reinvented Toilet Expo event, a showcase for new toilet technologies in Shanghai, China, while holding a jar of human poop as he made the case for improving sanitation systems on Tuesday.

The current toilet simply sends the waste away in the water, whereas these toilets don't have the sewer. They take both the liquids and solids and do chemical work on it, including burning it in most cases.

Because the toilet doesn't rely on sewage systems or sanitation infrastructure, it can be used just about anywhere, including in remote areas that lack good infrastructure or reliable water sources.

Read the full article about accessible sanitation by Sophie Maes at Global Citizen.