The Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist, Bill Gaters, wrote in a blog post "I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt and drop into a large bin... They made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated. A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.".

Janicki Omniprocessor, an ingenious machine designed and built by Janicki Bioenergy, which turns human waste into water and electricity.