In Part 6 of our series, “Saving Our Ponds: Nature’s Fertilizer,” we explore an innovative approach to wastewater management. Learn about urine diversion and discover how this emerging technology can significantly reduce nutrient impacts from septic systems, ultimately improving water quality and preventing cyanobacteria blooms. Discover how this affordable and sustainable solution can help manage human waste nutrients and clean our waters, and how it can be implemented at home.

Learn more about urine diversion technology and the work underway by the Green Center by visiting their website: https://newalchemists.net/

Participants and Partners
Hilda Maingay, Earle Barnhart, The Green Center (https://newalchemists.net/)
Dr. Mindy Richlen, Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health (WHCOHH; https://www2.whoi.edu/site/whcohh/)
Ollie Becker and Tim Persinko, Circuit Arts (https://circuitarts.org/)

Funding support for this series was provided by:
A Woods Hole Foundation grant to the Falmouth Water Stewards
The Woods Hole Center for Oceans and Human Health (WHCOHH), with grant support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (1P01-ES028938; 2P01ES028938-06) and National Science Foundation (OCE-1840381; 2418297).
The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or National Science Foundation.

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