New Delhi, Oct. 23 -- In India, where more than half a million children under the age of five, die each year from diarrheal diseases and millions of others continue to suffer from preventable illness such as cholera and typhoid, a young innovator has stepped forward with a transformative solution. Daksh Pruthi, a student of Modern School, Vasant Vihar, has developed ByeByeLota, a low-cost, patent-pending portable faucet / bidet that repurposes single-use plastic bottles into health faucets for post-defacation cleansing. Designed to eliminate direct hand contact with fecal matter, ByeByeLota addresses one of the root causes of sanitation-related diseases while simultaneously tackling plastic waste.

The device, which can be manufactured fo...