IIT Roorkee Launches Competition to Design Advance Bio-toilet

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IIT Roorkee Launches Competition to Design Advance Bio-toilet

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has launched a national competition to design a bio-toilet that would remove germs from human waste and recover resources such as energy, clean water, and nutrients.

This solution is expected to operate “off the grid” without connectivity to water, sewer, or electrical lines and cost less than Rs 5 per user per day. 

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An initiative under ‘Aviral Ganga 2.0,’ the 'Reinvent Bio-Toilet Challenge' will be an online case-study competition that aims to create a bio toilet. Source: Economic Times

This contest is intended to help rejuvenate the Ganges and is being taken up as part of Cognizance 2018, the annual tech festival of IIT Roorkee. An initiative under ‘Aviral Ganga 2.0,’ the 'Reinvent Bio-Toilet Challenge' will be an online case-study competition that aims to create a bio toilet. 

Further, to aid the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and perform extensive research of the river, Cognizance 2018 is also conducting a Quadcopter-based event for pollution monitoring. Participants have to build an innovative quad that should be efficient on all fronts and have considerable structural integrity. The winning models of both these events shall be forwarded to NMCG for implementation in their projects for cleaning Ganga. 

Read full article: The Economic Times - India

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  1. I find the topic of research to be socially very relevant and IIT Roorkee should accept up to Five Models to be built and tried for certification of the pre-defined USE Parameters by the Participants while funding their model making. However, why link this to Namame Gange or any river? 

    Focus area should be THE SELECTED MODEL'S stand alone use in Rural, Urban Clusters with no or conditional linking to Sewerage Collection System if available.

    I wish to offer Community Toilets with Low Cost Multi Cavity BIO-REACTOR with Biogas and Irrigation Water as the Output. Let the Organisers reach out to Interest Groups and also assist them by offering an M.Tech. student to take the proposition as a Joint Research Project. Please tell me whom to write to , to participate in the competition as those details are not in the article.