Indian sanitation expert Bindeshwar Pathak on Wednesday won the Stockholm Water Prize for his work developing eco-friendly and cheap toilets to help improve public health, the jury said.
Pathak, who founded the Sulabh Sanitation Movement in India in 1970, has worked "to improve public health, advance social progress and improve human rights in India and other countries," the jury of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) said.
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Pathak has helped change social attitudes toward "traditional unsanitary latrine practices in slums, rural villages, and dense urban districts, and developed cost-effective toilet systems that have improved daily life and health for millions of people," SIWI said.
The toilets require only 1.5 litres (0.4 gallons) of water per use to flush, compared to 10 litres (2.6 gallons) for conventional toilets, offering significant benefits in regions with water shortages.
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Pathak, born in 1943, will be presented with the 150,000-dollar (111,125-euro) prize sum and a glass sculpture during the annual World Water Week in Stockholm in August, traditionally attended by Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.
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A cheap toilet system that recycles human waste into biogas and fertiliser has been designed by Sulabh International, a well known Indian NGO.
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