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[–] shplane@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The valuable resource is fertilizer.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Urea and nitrate salts

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, urine is about 10% nitrogen which is why it's so good for plants (the N in NPK fertilizers).

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Waterworld, here we go. 😶

I pee in my garden all the time

[–] Libb@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And now they(1) will tell us we don't really our own urine, it was just leased to use and we now need to pay premium monthly sub to take a leak?

1: some capitalists/corps owning IP on the process.