some of the toilets that the engineers were coming up with cost something crazy like $50,000 to manufacture and I was thinking probably like Bill was.... something along the lines of "guys, you are missing the point, this toilet isn't for billionaires like me"

Apparently the big (ish) sewage processing plant has already been implemented to the tune of 1.5 million, which isn't bad considering that the infrastructure going under these villages and what not would probably cost dramatically more.

Agree with your "better late than never" statement, for sure.