Your pee could be the golden ticket to a greener world ...Middle East

We're flushing a lot of valuable nutrients down the drain. (Markus Spiske/)While many of us simply flush and forget about it, our pee has the potential to be a valuable resource. Urine contains the nutrients nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium—a trio known in agriculture as NPK—in soluble forms that plants can take up, similar to synthetic fertilizers widely used in crop production.As it’s currently managed, though, the world’s pee is not doing us nor the planet a service. Only seven percent of the world’s wastewater is fully treated to remove nitrogen, and when the urine-tinged effluent is released into water bodies it acts as a pollutant, causing algal blooms and fish die-offs. About 80 pe

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