Ideas change everything

Sanitation is a basic human right

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Francis de los Reyes |

TED Fellows Retreat 2013

• August 2013

Warning: This talk might contain much more than you'd ever want to know about the way the world poops. But as sanitation activist (and TED Fellow) Francis de los Reyes asks — doesn't everyone deserve a safe place to go?

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Warning: This talk might contain much more than you'd ever want to know about the way the world poops. But as sanitation activist (and TED Fellow) Francis de los Reyes asks — doesn't everyone deserve a safe place to go?

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Francis de los Reyes

Environmental engineer, sanitation activist

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Francis de los Reyes works with cutting-edge microbiological techniques in environmental biotech. But his passion, both professionally and personally, is helping to improve the plight of the world’s 2.5 billion people living without adequate sanitation. Reyes is a TED Fellow.

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Just another crappy day

In a post on Medium, Francis de los Reyes gives a behind-the-scenes look at a day spent collecting and studying feces.

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