‘What’s App’ has created a rage like no other, in mobile
computing space in recent times; a day does not pass when a friend or family
politely request you to use the application and add him in the network. It is
indeed a useful application for instant communication with minimal cost.
However, India
needs two products that its poor people can afford just like a mobile phone.
These two applications could solve half of India’s problems. Excuse me to
propose an automatic toilet and an automatic bio-composter. The biggest, and by
far the most inscrutable problem that India face is cleanliness, hygiene
and pollution of air and water. That has defied a solution. Our river system
continue to be poured with untreated black sewage water our cities and towns
have become a dump yard of solid waste and our rural areas practice open
defecation that add to the health hazard and consequent cost on public health. India currently
spends about 40 billion Dollars in importing electronic goods and our IT exports
have touched 80 billion Dollar. Can’t India invest
just 1 Billion Dollar to design and produce these two machines? It is said “necessity
is the mother of invention”. If such machines does not constitute a
necessity; then, what else? A few years from now 40% of our population
would live in urban space in over 500 cities and towns that would make the cost
of providing sewerage connection to urban homes prohibitive as one kilometer of
such connection would cost over one crore rupees and treatment of such a huge
quantity of black water would certainly break the back of urban municipal
bodies. The solution lies in an ‘automatic toilet system’ or even better
we can give this a sobriquet of ‘smart toilet system’ keeping with times
that could process the night soil into manure and convert black water for
tertiary use in garden. This machine alone could save a few thousand billion
dollars for our country while conserving our water bodies, river systems and
public health.
The solid waste disposal system of our cities and towns has
almost nearing a breaking point that begs for a creative solution. If we could
design a bio-composter that converts bio wastes of homes into vermin
compost; then, half of solid waste
disposal problem could be contained as bio-waste constitute 50% of all solid
waste. On top of it the home production of compost would lead to a movement of
kitchen garden that translates into better public health. Apart from the direct
benefits of such machines; the production and consumption of such machines
could create a multi billion dollar Industry with an employment potential of a
half a million keeping the potential demand and scale of operations in mind.
Our IIT & NIT system could
design and develop such technology that could put western mobile technology
& what’s app to shame. Shall we?
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