Is the toilet humanity's most important invention? | DW Analysis

Penicillin, vaccines, organ transplants. All these innovations are rightfully hailed as milestones of medical advance. But another invention more than deserves to be held in the same regard. The toilet. You should give a crap about your crapper, because it has a huge influence on your life and humanity in general. Many of us take modern sanitation for granted. The vast majority of humans that walked this earth at some point, if they had done their business, they were kind of stuck with it. And that is by no means a problem of the past.