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I'm Maeve Higgins and this is Solvable.

Interviews with the world's most innovative thinkers working to solve the world's biggest problems.

So, you know that here unsolvable, we're used to having guests who are taking on huge challenges.

But our guest this episode, Shashi Bouloswar, is not content with just one solvable.

He has three.

The first is electricity access.

Today, a billion people around the world don't have access to electricity,

and that number is expected to grow.

My first solvable is coming up with mechanisms

to make sure those billion people have electricity.

The second is it's not electricity that matters.

It's what people do with it.

One of the most important things people can do with electricity is refrigeration.

They can save perishables.

If they're growing fruits and vegetables, they can store them and take them to market.

They can store sensitive pharmaceuticals. to market, they can store sensitive

pharmaceuticals. Of the 7.7 billion people in the world, almost a third don't have access

to refrigeration. I would love to sell that problem. The third is the dignity of sanitation

and toilets. Today, again, over a billion people in the world do not have

access to clean sanitation, whether it's its home, whether it's in cities where human waste

just gets dumped into local waterways. One of my solvables is making sure everybody in the world

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