Sanivation - Nakuru, Kenya

In 2006, Emory approached Georgia Tech with the aim of finding a more reliable toilet system for treating human fecal sludge. Subsequently, prototypes of a solar toilet were constructed in Bolivia in 2007 and 2008. This project was further developed by GTRI and Engineers Without Boarders with many iterations of the prototypes. In 2011, a group of students and alumni from Emory and Georgia Tech submitted an application to Start-Up Chile, a business incubator, to start a business based on solar sanitation. As a result, five Tech students moved to Chile in July 2011 to work full-time on this project. After successful trials of the prototypes, the team designed service models to create a viable business model.