New Tech Helps Improve Sanitation in Jakarta Slums
Take a look at the picture above of a slum in Jakarta, Indonesia. Now tell me how you would get a typical large sanitation truck through the slum in order to collect human “sludge”. That’s a question that Mercy Corps’ Indonesian team asked themselves, and they came up with a great answer. In Indonesia 50,000 people die every year as a result of poor sanitation, most of them being in slums like the one above. It’s understandable since none ofcontinue reading