Virginia Gardiner

Virginia Gardiner
Loowatt

Virginia Gardiner is the inventor of the Loowatt toilet system, a company that develops high-quality, container-based sanitation in use in the UK and emerging markets. Prior to starting Loowatt in 2010, she spent seven years working with award-winning product and design companies including Dwell Magazine and wrote for publications including Metropolis and The New York Times. She earned a joint master’s degree in innovation design engineering from the Royal College of Arts and Imperial College London and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in comparative literature.

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August 7
2017

Virginia Gardiner

Rethinking the Flush Toilet: It’s Time to Move Sanitation Infrastructure Off the Grid

Virginia Gardiner, inventor of the Loowatt toilet system, says sanitation infrastructure has to move off the grid, just as mobile communications did in the 20th century. She points to a growing number of companies, including her own, that are piloting the provision of non-sewered sanitation to households thorough container-based sanitation, a system that presents the most viable alternative for urban areas in need of sanitation solutions.

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Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise, WASH

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Base of the Pyramid, business development, infectious diseases, public health

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