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Date of Publication: February 9
Year of Publication: 2022
Publication City: London, UK
Publisher: Springer Nature
Author(s): Chelsea Wald
Separating urine from the rest of sewage could mitigate some difficult environmental problems, but there are big obstacles to radically re-engineering one of the most basic aspects of life.
On Gotland, the largest island in Sweden, freshwater is scarce. At the same time, residents are battling dangerous amounts of pollution from agriculture and sewer systems that cause harmful algal blooms in the surrounding Baltic Sea. These can kill fish and make people ill.
To help solve this set of environmental challenges, the island is pinning its hopes on a single, unlikely substance that connects them: human urine.
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