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An increase in water shortages and greenhouse gas emissions is a serious enough climate problem that\u00a0scientists are willing to go to any lengths<\/a>\u00a0to save the world. One trick in our bioagricultural arsenal? Re-using human pee, they say.<\/p>

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No, we\u2019re not talking about\u00a0a Bear Grylls LARP club<\/a>. Instead, a group of scientists\u00a0told national French news service\u00a0AFP<\/em>\u00a0today<\/a>\u00a0that human urine may be a way to better fertilize large-scale agricultural produce than current methods farmers use. Plants need nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to grow and produce fruit \u2014 but modern chemical versions of these fertilizers increase greenhouse gases and make waterways inhabitable.<\/p>\n

Enter human micturate, which contains all of the above. Julia Cavicchi from the United States Rich Earth Institute said that urine accounts for about 80 percent of the nitrogen found in wastewater and more than half of the phosphorus. That\u2019s a rich resource that ag businesses could use, if urine diversion and collection infrastructure got built out.<\/p>

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There\u2019s some precedent, at least on a small scale. Savvy shoppers can purchase\u00a0composting toilets at appliance stores<\/a>, which composts solid human waste into a usable fertilizer. Some gardeners use regular old,\u00a0homemade urine to increase nutrients<\/a>\u00a0and encourage biodiversity.<\/p>

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But that doesn\u2019t mean everybody\u2019s on board, even though\u00a0AFP<\/em>\u00a0says pilot programs for wastewater collection are relatively popular in the few global communities where they\u2019ve been implemented.<\/p>\n

Marine Legrand an anthropologist at the OCAPI network, said overcoming our squeamishness against pee diversion systems should get easier as water shortages increase and H20 becomes an increasingly valuable global resource.<\/p>

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\u201cWe are beginning to understand how precious water is,\u201d she told the French wire service. \u201cSo it becomes unacceptable to defecate in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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An increase in water shortages and greenhouse gas emissions is a serious enough climate problem that\u00a0scientists are willing to go to any lengths\u00a0to save the world. One trick in our bioagricultural arsenal? Re-using human pee, they say. No, we\u2019re not talking about\u00a0a Bear Grylls LARP club. 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