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The Summary:
By a chance, a guy in Nepal cannot grow these big cabbages thus he can not earn more money from it, but he finds out that human urine is the best fertilizer that he can use to make his cabbages bigger. Everything has both positive and negative effect, of course, this is not excluded. The benefits that human get from the their urine can express from several ways. The first is the urine e contains mostly water, mixed in with nutrients that plants can be rapidly and easily absorb. It is generally compared to the nitrogen-rich fertilizer urea, except in liquid form and cost-free. By replacing mineral fertilizer with urine, farmers also can slightly offset their carbon footprint, and narrow the need for phosphorous found in reserves that are being depleted. The urine will be a substitute when you do not have a fertilizer. Even though there are benefits of using urine but also there are risks. Urine can pose health problems except in the case of accidental contamination from fecal pathogens. People can prevent these health related problems from separation of urine at the source to applying urine only on soils and not on leaves, prioritizing crops that will be cooked and sanitary handling in the kitchen.
Now everybody knows that the urine can help with the agriculture, but there is an issue which is the slow uptake. The biggest challenge in urban settings is collecting and transporting all those sloshing liters of urine to the farmer’s fields. Thus, the scientists are looking for the ways that can solidify the valuable phosphorus available in urine. The farmers have been experimenting with all different kinds of food, like tomato, corn, etc. that creates a diversity in the market. Undeniable, urine as a new source of fertilizer has been making the some countries' economy to bloom.
Reflection:
The reason why I chose this article was because it was eye-catching and interesting for me. Since urine has been discovered as a new type of fertilizer, it makes life a lot of easier and more ecological friendly. The reason why everybody wants to use urine is because it mostly contains water and and mixes with nutrients that plants can quickly and easily absorb, but it also has some bad effects to the environment and people, even though it is negligible. The best way to prevent before it happens to anybody or the environment is to use separate urine system or toilets. The concern for the urine is the slow uptake, the people are searching for a new way to solidify the phosphorus in the human urine. The farmers have been using urine to plant different vegetables and fruits, such as tomato, corn and banana in order to make their families lives better economically.
By a chance, a guy in Nepal cannot grow these big cabbages thus he can not earn more money from it, but he finds out that human urine is the best fertilizer that he can use to make his cabbages bigger. Everything has both positive and negative effect, of course, this is not excluded. The benefits that human get from the their urine can express from several ways. The first is the urine e contains mostly water, mixed in with nutrients that plants can be rapidly and easily absorb. It is generally compared to the nitrogen-rich fertilizer urea, except in liquid form and cost-free. By replacing mineral fertilizer with urine, farmers also can slightly offset their carbon footprint, and narrow the need for phosphorous found in reserves that are being depleted. The urine will be a substitute when you do not have a fertilizer. Even though there are benefits of using urine but also there are risks. Urine can pose health problems except in the case of accidental contamination from fecal pathogens. People can prevent these health related problems from separation of urine at the source to applying urine only on soils and not on leaves, prioritizing crops that will be cooked and sanitary handling in the kitchen.
Now everybody knows that the urine can help with the agriculture, but there is an issue which is the slow uptake. The biggest challenge in urban settings is collecting and transporting all those sloshing liters of urine to the farmer’s fields. Thus, the scientists are looking for the ways that can solidify the valuable phosphorus available in urine. The farmers have been experimenting with all different kinds of food, like tomato, corn, etc. that creates a diversity in the market. Undeniable, urine as a new source of fertilizer has been making the some countries' economy to bloom.
Reflection:
The reason why I chose this article was because it was eye-catching and interesting for me. Since urine has been discovered as a new type of fertilizer, it makes life a lot of easier and more ecological friendly. The reason why everybody wants to use urine is because it mostly contains water and and mixes with nutrients that plants can quickly and easily absorb, but it also has some bad effects to the environment and people, even though it is negligible. The best way to prevent before it happens to anybody or the environment is to use separate urine system or toilets. The concern for the urine is the slow uptake, the people are searching for a new way to solidify the phosphorus in the human urine. The farmers have been using urine to plant different vegetables and fruits, such as tomato, corn and banana in order to make their families lives better economically.