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Can Human Urine Fertilize Our Crops?

Modern Farmer

” Diverting urine from the wastewater stream for use as fertilizer would also address the two largest contributors of nutrient pollution in the U.S., Davis helped him modify his tractor so that he could cultivate his fields and apply urine in one pass. You need a lot of it to do an acre, he said.

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The Mashpee Wampanoag Work With a Cape Cod Town to Restore Their Fishing Grounds

Civil Eats

Joshua Reitsma, a marine chemist at the nearby Woods Hole Oceanographic Institut ion , says this effluent is responsible for 80 percent of the Capes nutrient pollution, leading to algal blooms that blanket the surface in summer and fall to the bottom in winter. Quahog (littleneck) clams freshly caught off Cape Cod.